10,000 Evacuated as WWII Bombs Defused

More than 10,000 people were evacuated from their homes in the western town of Osnabrueck while explosives experts defused four unexploded World War II-era U.S. bombs, police said.

A police spokesman said that the four 1,000-pound bombs had been discovered in farmland near a rail station and that 10,000 people in the town of 160,000 were evacuated as a precaution for five hours.

There are still numerous unexploded WWII bombs buried in German soil. Scores of the British and U.S. bombs are found and defused each year. Construction workers are occasionally hurt or killed when they accidentally set off the devices.