Frankfurt evacuates thousands for bomb defusal
03 September 2017 |
2:20 pm
More than 60,000 people had to be evacuated from their homes in the German city of Frankfurt on Sunday as bomb disposal experts prepared to defuse a World War Two bomb that was discovered during construction work in the city's leafy Westend suburb.
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