Experts defuse unexploded WWII bomb in central Berlin
Berlin (CNN) -- It happens more often than you might think: Streets cordoned off and bomb disposal experts called in to deal with unexploded bombs that were dropped on Germany nearly 70 years ago.
Commuters in Berlin Wednesday were the latest to suffer the inconvenience of dealing with ordnance dating back to World War II.
This time the culprit was a Russian-made aerial bomb weighing in at 100 kilograms (220 pounds), unearthed just two meters away from a train track leading into the city's main train station.
Nearly 840 people were evacuated from the central Berlin area, police said, before bomb disposal experts moved in to defuse the device.
About 25 minutes after they started their delicate task, the mechanical fuse was unscrewed and the bomb was disabled.
Alert over, Berliners could return home and go back to their everyday business.
A member of the bomb disposal team told CNN the bomb could have blown a crater 3 to 4 meters wide and 3 meters (10 feet) deep, had it gone off.
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