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Picture taken by the Limburg Police Department
The dud detonated at about 4 am in a field near the German city of Limburg, approximately 4 meters or 13 feet underground. EOD experts have identified the ammunition as a 500 lbs bomb with a chemically delayed-action fuze, designed to kill personnel responding to emergencies in the wake of an air raid. A farmstead some 150 meters away was damaged by the explosion, its owner suffering minor injuries.
With more than 300000 aerial bombs unaccounted for in modern-day Germany alone, this is quite unsettling news. Smaller ammunitions such as mortar grenades or land mines do go off in these parts every now and again, but this is the first reported incident since 1957 of a full-fledged aerial bomb going off without any external interference whatsoever. In 2010, three EOD experts were killed when an aerial bomb readied for disposal detonated on a construction site in Central Germany. In 2006, a construction worker was killed when his pavement milling machine struck an aerial bomb buried underneath.
The dud detonated at about 4 am in a field near the German city of Limburg, approximately 4 meters or 13 feet underground. EOD experts have identified the ammunition as a 500 lbs bomb with a chemically delayed-action fuze, designed to kill personnel responding to emergencies in the wake of an air raid. A farmstead some 150 meters away was damaged by the explosion, its owner suffering minor injuries.
With more than 300000 aerial bombs unaccounted for in modern-day Germany alone, this is quite unsettling news. Smaller ammunitions such as mortar grenades or land mines do go off in these parts every now and again, but this is the first reported incident since 1957 of a full-fledged aerial bomb going off without any external interference whatsoever. In 2010, three EOD experts were killed when an aerial bomb readied for disposal detonated on a construction site in Central Germany. In 2006, a construction worker was killed when his pavement milling machine struck an aerial bomb buried underneath.
