Saturday, April 25, 2009

The house of Angela Merkel in Berlin found unexploded Soviet bombs.

In the heart of Berlin construction workers on Friday found the Soviet unexploded bomb from the Second World War, reports Reuters. The bomb, weighing about 100 kilograms, was found in the building site on Museum Island, near the New Museum.
In connection with the incident residents of all houses within a radius of 300 meters from the place of discovery were evacuated as a necessary precaution. According to the Berlin police, the zone of danger, and got flat German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who lives across the street from the building.
According to the agency at the time of detection of bombs, Merkel was not at home: they make a speech at the event "a" in another part of Berlin. The police said that before the bomb is defused, the Chancellor will not be able to get home.
Explosive workers at the scene, going to defuse the bomb detonators removed.
According to the agency, according to various estimates from 10 to 20 percent of all bombs dropped on German cities during the Second World, not sdetonirovali. Most of these bombs were found and defused shortly after the war, but the shells are so far.

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