About 7,800 Berlin residents were evacuated on Wednesday after a World War II bomb was found in the east of the city.
Two furniture stores, two day-care centres, two schools and a craft shop are located within a 500-metre radius around the site of Hohenschönhausen where the bomb was found.
The bomb was found at a construction site on Wednesday and has been examined by experts.
About 180 policemen were mobilized for the evacuation. Police said on Twitter late Wednesday that the bomb had been successfully defused.
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