A 500-kilogram unexploded bomb from World War II has been safely defused on the property of German chemical giant BASF in the western city of Ludwigshafen.
The process took more than three hours and went according to plan, a BASF spokeswoman said.
Production at the BASF factory continued during the disarming on Saturday, though employees were prohibited from walking within 300 metres of the bomb.
Workers discovered the explosive device at the beginning of August during sanitation work in the southern area of the site.
Finding unexploded Nazi-era bombs is an almost regular occurrence in Germany, where millions of tonnes of bombs were dropped towards the end of World War II by Allied and Soviet forces.
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