Berlin Tegel, April 08: the German capital’s main airport, was closed on Wednesday and flights were re-routed after an unexploded World War Two bomb was found there.
“All air traffic has been re-routed and the bomb squad is in the process of defusing the bomb,” a Berlin police spokesman said.
Munitions left over from the war are found regularly in Germany. On Tuesday a similar bomb was defused near a light railway station in eastern Berlin.
Tegel serves around 14.5 million passengers annually, but is due to be replaced in 2011, along with the city’s other commercial airport, when the new Berlin Brandenburg International (BBI) airport becomes operational.
—–Agencies