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Bingen (dpa / lrs) - In Bingen, a bomb from the Second World War was successfully defused on Friday.
Everything went "quickly and smoothly," said the mayor of Bingen, Ulrich Mönch (CDU), at noon.
According to the operations center, the 250 kilogram bomb was defused shortly after 12 noon.
According to the city, an area of 500 meters around the site had been evacuated, around 3,000 people had to leave their apartments and houses.
The road closures are reportedly lifted again.
Traffic on the Mainz-Koblenz railway line was also able to resume - as was shipping on the Rhine.
Accordingly, a total of around 100 emergency services were on site, there were no special incidents.
The evacuation went according to plan, "only in individual cases there was a need for discussion," said the city.
The ordnance clearance service of the Supervision and Service Directorate (ADD) had defused the bomb.
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The bomb was discovered on Thursday during sewer work in the playground of a vocational school.
The city of Bingen said it had opened the Bingen cultural center and the gymnasium of a primary school for the time of the evacuation when people had no possibility of private accommodation.
Only a few people would have made use of this.
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