Evacuation under way for bomb disposal operation in central Berlin

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The authorities in Berlin began evacuating people living within a 500-metre radius of a World War II bomb found during construction work ahead of an operation to defuse it later in the day. The evacuation began early in the morning – with the radius measured from the Jewish Hospital in the district of Gesundbrunnen where the bomb was found – in an operation affecting some 15,000 residents. People are being brought to safety, a police officer told dpa. Some 400 police staff are going door to door to ensure people have vacated their homes. Work to defuse the 250-kilogram aerial bomb is due to st…

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