WWII bomb to cause closure at Nuremberg railway station

The entire Nuremberg main railway station will be evacuated Wednesday morning after the discovery of a bomb from the Second World War, the south German city of Nuremberg announced Tuesday. There will be no train traffic starting from 10 a.m. (0090 GMT) on Wednesday. Most of the traffic is to be diverted, the authority reminded. Approximately 1,300 residents will have to leave their homes and businesses, which surround the main railway station, from 8 o'clock in the morning. They will be temporarily accommodated in a school, according to the city authority. Operations to defuse the dud, which was discovered at a construction site, is scheduled to begin at 11. Nuremberg is the second-largest city in Bavaria. It was severely damaged in the Second World War. About The 90 percent of the medieval city center was destroyed after a systematic bombard.