Rechlin (dpa/mv) - In Rechlin (Mecklenburg Lake District) an aircraft bomb from the Second World War is to be defused on Thursday (09.00 a.m.). Some residents and vacationers therefore have to leave their accommodations not far from the Müritz in an area of 1.6 kilometers in diameter. Some companies stop their work, the road to the Müritz National Park to Boek is closed. The dud, weighing 250 kilograms, was discovered during reconnaissance work on the site of a former military property.
For almost 80 years it lay unnoticed in the ground on the site of the former GDR army and later a Bundeswehr camp. The bomb dates back to April 1945, when the German Luftwaffe's testing site in Rechlin was bombed. The municipality must clear the site as part of a so-called conversion so that buyers can use it.
A similar bomb was found and defused there in March. On Monday, a 500-kilo bomb from that time had to be detonated in neighboring Lärz.
