The German authorities evacuated residents from their homes in the western German city of Krefeld late Tuesday to defuse an unexploded World War II bomb.
The bomb, a 250-kilogram war relic, was found just one meter underground during excavation work at a former retirement home, the local fire department said in a statement early Wednesday. Bomb experts determined that the bomb had to be defused quickly. 
Around 500 residents within a 100 meter radius were forced to evacuate the area while the bomb was defused, with some less-mobile neighbors being moved by ambulance. Streets in the area were also blocked off by police.
On May 7, authorities in Hanover defused three much larger World War II-era bombs, in the second-largest operation to remove unexploded ordnance in the country's history.
During that operation, 50,000 people had to be evacuated from the surrounding area.

Source: QNA