A major rail line between Augsburg and Ulm and a federal highway in southern Germany are being closed Tuesday evening to allow authorities to defuse five unexploded World War II ordnances, officials said.
The Munich bomb disposal unit is expected to render the devices safe between 18:30 and 20:30 local time. The five U.S.-made fragmentation bombs, each weighing 126 kilograms, were discovered in the Pfuhler Ried area near Neu-Ulm. Authorities have established a 500-metre exclusion zone around each device, and the B10 highway is being shut in both directions during the operation.
The Augsburg–Ulm rail corridor is also affected by the closures. The same area saw two other World War II bombs defused in mid-July, underscoring the persistent hazard posed by unexploded ordnance across Germany more than eight decades after the war's end.