A weapon system from seven tenner ago created a crisis in France this week . A team digging out a novel subway line in Rennes , France incur an tremendous 550 - lb . turkey from World War II lodged in the ground near City Hall . Over 3,000 people had toevacuate their homes .
grant to city manager Nathalie Appere , a bomb squadsuccessfully defusedthe equipment , which had over 150 pounds of explosive still inside . The people ordered to void a margin of nearly 300 yards are now able to go home , safe from this finicky munition but now cognizant of one of the scariest legacies of WWII : An untold numeral of dud lie dormant and scattered throughout the continent .
Bombe désamorcée . Périmètre levé . Bravo aux démineurs#Rennespic.twitter.com / Lmsi2nSs2F
— Nathalie Appéré ( @nathalieappere)November 23 , 2014
Germany is basically a terrifying burying ground for Allied bombs ; just last August Frankfurt Airport had to stay flight after someone discover an undetonated explosive . And in 2011 , over 45,000 people had to empty after a 1.8 - ton bomb was foundin the Rhine River . All in all , over 2,000 gobs of older bombsare discovered in Germanyevery yr .
To make subject worse , the bombs get harder to defuse as they degrade with age . While deaths from these relics of war are rare , they ’re not unheard of - an excavatordied in Germanyearlier this year . If nothing else , it ’s a forbidding reminder that violence can linger in unintended ways . [ AFP ]
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