“About 13 thousand people are evacuating from about 9.30 (11:30 Moscow time) so that our specialists can defuse a 250-kilogram bomb during World War II,” the Berlin police said on Twitter.

Earlier, the authorities of the German city of Cologne evacuated about 8.6 thousand people because of a bomb from World War II.

On June 25, the Kryminform portal reported that in the Crimea two air bombs and four shells from the war were defused.