Published: 6 Jan 13 11:16 CET | Print version
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25,000 people have lost their usual weekend lie-in after they were evacuated from their homes on Sunday morning in Hannover in one of the biggest bomb disposal operations in the city's history.
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well it still kind of speaks to their build quality, if even after close to 70 years in the ground, unspent ordnance is still a very real threat.
I remember a few years ago, along a stretch of Autobahn in southern Germany which was due to be repaved, a steamroller ran over a WWII aircraft bomb and was blown sky high and the person operating it perished.