WWII bomb transported across Germany, found at waste site
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Police say an unexploded World War II bomb was inadvertently transported across Germany before being discovered at a waste disposal facility, where it was defused.
Police in the eastern state of Saxony said late Wednesday that the bomb — some 1 meter (3.3 feet) long and 40 centimeters (16 inches) in diameter — was brought to the facility in Deutzen in a delivery of soil from Cologne. That's a journey of some 480 kilometers (300 miles).
Some 600 people in a radius of 1,000 meters (yards) around the bomb were evacuated, and the bomb was quickly defused.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}More than 70 years after the end of the war, unexploded bombs are still commonly found in Germany.