Potsdam residents evactuated as WW 11 bomb defused

Some 5,000 residents of Potsdam in Germany were evacuated from their homes today while explosives experts defused a 250-kilogram (550lb) US Second World War bomb, police said.

Much of Potsdam, outside Berlin, was sealed off and hundreds of stores and businesses were closed to allow for the removal of the bomb, which was found during excavation work on the grounds of a hospital.