Bomb defusing

By AFP Published: Apr 05, 2021 09:23 PM

An employee of the Explosive Ordnance Disposal Service shows the detonators of a defused World War II bomb in Wilhelmsburg. Photo: AFP

Police officers prepare the evacuation for a bomb defusing operation in the district of Wilhelmsburg in Hamburg, Germany on Monday. A walker had found the 114-kilogram World War II bomb on a construction site, and it was successfully defused. Photo: AFP

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