[Ngo-lwg] BBC News: German evacuation for WW2 bomb disposal in Augsburg

Mon Dec 26 00:23:49 ICT 2016

Yes, this gift lasts long…

We have some in France too, from both wars, especially in the North.

No casuallity occured todate but people remain careful.

A happy new year to all, nevertheless.

Yours, 

MH

De : Chuck Searcy [mailto:chuckusvn at gmail.com] 
Envoyé : dimanche 25 décembre 2016 17:27
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Objet : BBC News: German evacuation for WW2 bomb disposal in Augsburg

In this BBC <http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-38430671> 's version of the same story circulated earlier, the following related information was provided at the end of the article:

Other WW2 bombs recently discovered in Germany

§  May 2015: 20,000 people in Cologne  <http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-32897388> forced to leave their homes after a one-tonne bomb was discovered

§  January 2012: A  <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-25594000> construction worker was killed when his digger hit an unexploded bomb in Euskirchen.

§  December 2011: 45,000 people were  <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16018659> evacuated from Koblenz after two bombs were found in the riverbed of the Rhine. It took three hours to make them both safe.

§  June 2010:  <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10212890> Three members of a bomb disposal squad were killed in Goettingen during an operation to defuse a bomb found on a building site.

Viet Nam continues to deal with the threat of unexploded ordnance on a daily basis, but other countries also are still finding old bombs, some of them dating back to World War I and World War II.

 <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-38430671> 
German evacuation for WW2

bomb disposal in Augsburg

  <http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/moira/img/ios/v3/1024/cpsprodpb/172C/production/_93123950_0155fc91-42ca-4f4b-8322-68a409e7b35a.jpg> 

The discovery of a World War Two bomb forces the evacuation of thousands of people in Augsburg.

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