The World War II bomb found during dredging work in the Rhine has been defused. The closures will be lifted.
The World War II bomb discovered in Cologne-Deutz on Wednesday morning was successfully defused at 4:06 p.m. The city announced this in a press release.
The unexploded bomb from the Second World War was found in the morning during dredging work in the Rhine near the Kennedy bank in Cologne-Deutz. Numerous offices, a hotel and the RTL broadcaster building had to be evacuated. The American ten hundredweight bomb had to be placed from the excavator bucket onto a pontoon, where it was then defused by the Düsseldorf district government’s explosive ordnance disposal service. The unexploded bomb was then lifted onto a truck with the help of a fire department crane and then transported away.
In addition to around 60 members of the Cologne public order office, the fire department, the KVB, Deutsche Bahn, state, federal and water police were involved in the operation.
According to the city administration, flowing traffic can now be reopened on the left bank of the Rhine, with pedestrian traffic following shortly afterwards.
2024-04-03 19:08:29
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