Some 30,000 people have been told to evacuate their homes after an unexploded World War II bomb was found in the south-western German city of Pforzheim, police said on Sunday.
The 1.8-ton bomb is set to be defused later today, with firefighters currently checking whether all residents have left the evacuation zone, a police spokesman said.
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