FRANKFURT—Thousands of residents in Frankfurt evacuated their homes early on Sunday ahead of the planned defusing of a massive World War Two bomb discovered on a building site in the German financial capital.
A steady flow of people filed into a temporary center at Frankfurt’s trade fair site, in Germany’s biggest evacuation since the war.
The bomb was found last week in the city’s leafy Westend suburb, where many wealthy bankers live, and the evacuation area included the country’s central bank where $70 billion in gold reserves are stored.
Police officers close a street as 60,000 people in Germany's financial capital are about to evacuate the city while experts defuse an unexploded British World War Two bomb found during renovations on the university's campus in Frankfurt, Germany, September 3, 2017. Reuters/Kai Pfaffenbach
