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How often are people killed in Germany by old ordnance?
by jessriedel 7y ago
How often are people killed in Germany by old ordnance?
- detaro 7y agoI think now there's an incident with deaths every few years, e.g. last I could quickly find were 2014 (excavator hit one on a construction site, driver killed) and 2010 (3 bomb disposal workers killed while prepping a bomb to be disarmed).
- b2ccb2 7y agoI was in a somewhat close vicinity for the 2010 one, about 3km away. It occurred in Göttingen[1], I was studying for an exam and at around 10pm I heard a rather loud dull/muffled bang and my windows vibrated. 3 people from the Kampfmittelräumdienst[2] died while trying to disarm a 500kg bomb with a chemical trigger, 2 were heavily injured and 4 slightly. [1] https://www.goettinger-tageblatt.de/Nachrichten/Panorama/Goettingen-Drei-Menschen-sterben-bei-Bombenexplosion https://www.goettinger-tageblatt.de/Nachrichten/Panorama/Goe... [2] https://www.goettinger-tageblatt.de/Nachrichten/Panorama/Goettingen-Drei-Menschen-sterben-bei-Bombenexplosion https://www.goettinger-tageblatt.de/Nachrichten/Panorama/Goe... Update: Around 7000 people were evacuated before the disarming took place.