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THE DRIVER OF an excavator was killed and eight other people injured when a World War II-era bomb blew up during earthworks in Germany today, police said.
The blast wave from the sleeper bomb blew out the windows of surrounding buildings and could be felt for several kilometres, said police and residents.
The accident, in which two of the wounded suffered serious injuries, shook an industrial area in the town of Euskirchen near the former capital Bonn in western Germany.
“During earth works an excavator hit a World War II bomb which exploded,” a local police spokesman told AFP.
“There was a huge blast wave. In the vicinity of the accident site and surrounding streets, home windows shattered and garage doors were pushed in.”
The ground below many Germany cities still contains unexploded ordnance dropped by Allied and Soviet forces in the Second World War, but most are safely defused when found.
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It’s like we’re living in a big open air prison all about control control control
@United Ireland: Control yourself!
All these countries will put the U.K. on a their red list and then BJ can blame the EU …. again…!!!
8 days booked in Ibiza :)
@Jose Maria: you will get to enjoy four of those days before racing to the airport because the islands have been removed from the list again.
@Sean Higgins: I’ll take the laptop just in case I have to stay more, totally worth
Good for them. Let Ireland follow suit
Whoah! They’re going to Ibiza
Whoah! Back to the island
Whoah! They’re gonna have a party
Whoah! In the Mediterranean Sea
Bleedin Mad OUVIT
A worldwide pandemic with a fractured attitude to tackling it. Like wack to mole really.
Balearic house or pumpin house?
@John kane: Eye Ball Paul..
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