Lower thirds:

00:02 Report by Steven Gislam

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Cologne's usually bustling streets were unusually quiet on Wednesday. 
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Germany's fourth-largest city was like a ghost town. All the shops were closed down.
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Just two days previously, construction workers found three unexploded World War Two bombs across the Rhine River from Cologne's historic center.
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The 80 plus year old US-manufactured munitions together weighed some 2 and a half tonnes. 
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More than twenty thousand residents were evacuated from a one kilometre radius. It was the largest evacuation the city had seen since the end of the war.
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It was a massive operation that involved emptying 58 hotels, two retirement homes, a hospital, a railway station, several museums and countless homes. It also closed three bridges and the town hall.
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Most people, though, seemed to take it in their stride.
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((COLOGNE RESIDENT, MARIANNE BOERINGER, 13 secs))
    "the past always catches up with us and there is no counter-argument. We have to think about our safety and treat it like a natural disaster."
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((Man with black and white pattern on jacket, 13 secs))
"To find three bombs at the same time, right next to each other, that’s crazy."
((WEISSBLITZ @ 01:22))
"Let’s see how it goes. So far, things have always worked out well here in Cologne."
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((Old Frau mit weisse Hemd, 14 secs))
"Since we’ve experienced so much in our old age, nothing can really surprise us anymore."

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The biggest issue many evacuees had was finding ways to pass the time...
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((Old Frau mit weisse Hemd, 4 secs))
"We've got nothing to do!"
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Once authorities were certain the exclusion zone was empty, bomb disposal experts defused the bombs in just a couple of hours, clearing the way for everybody to return home.

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