FILE PHOTO: The skyline of Frankfurt, Germany, May 11, 2017. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach/File Photo
FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Frankfurt's city centre, an area including police headquarters, two hospitals, transport systems and Germany's central bank storing $70 billion (£54.2 billion) in gold reserves will be evacuated on Sunday to allow the defusing of a 1.8 tonne World War Two bomb.
A spokesman for the German Bundesbank said, however, "the usual security arrangements" would remain in place while experts worked to disarm the bomb, dropped by the British air force and uncovered during excavation of a building site.
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