The discovery caused officials to evacuate 18,000 people on Wednesday, the largest such operation ever in the city, emergency services said.

An unexploded World War II bomb has been successfully defused in the German city of Dresden, police said, after a huge evacuation operation.

The city's biggest ever evacuation comes after the British flying bomb was discovered near a collapsed bridge.

Authorities in the eastern German city of Dresden began evacuating about 18,000 residents on Wednesday after the discovery of ...

THOUSANDS of people have been evacuated from Dresden after an unexploded World War 2 bomb was uncovered in the German city. A bomb squad was set to try to defuse the 250Kg British bomb which was ...

Officials in Dresden evacuated 18,000 people Wednesday after the discovery of an unexploded World War II bomb, the largest ...

Much of the centre of the German city of Dresden will be evacuated on Wednesday, after the discovery of a large unexploded British World War Two flying bomb. The 250kg (551lb) device was discovered ...

Officials in Dresden evacuate 18,000 people after the discovery of an unexploded World War II bomb, the largest such ...