WW2 still claims victims...

[Shaolin]

Tthree bomb disposal experts were killed by a WW2 bomb in Göttingen yesterday:

 

(in german)

http://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/niedersachsen/bombe138.html

http://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/niedersachsen/bombe136.html

 

(in english)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1283273/WW2-bomb-kills-G-ttingen-experts-attempt-defuse-it.html

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/817837--three-killed-trying-to-defuse-wwii-bomb-in-germany

[+Gepard]

The last heros of WW2.

 

 

Chemical long time delay fuses are devlish. Still active after such a long time, if the bomb is fallen so, that the acid was unable to destroy the celluloit cap which is holding the trigger. If a building machine is moving the bomb it is often so, that now the acid can do the job and the fuse will detonate the bomb after a while.

Edited June 2, 2010 by Gepard

[+Dave]

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[UK_Widowmaker]

They possibly wont be the last!...there must be many such devices still lying around the place..and becoming more dangerous as time goes on

[Capitaine Vengeur]

Whole Europe has been a giant battlefield for so many years. In my city of Le Havre (heavily bombed by RAF on September 5, 1944 - 5000 killed in a night of terror), we still find one big air bomb about every three years since I'm living here. Large lots of blocks evacuated each time, no victims I've heard of to that day. In the surrounding area of my hometown of Rheims, the danger comes from WW1 shells that heavily rained from both sides for a while. Urbanized and cultivated areas have been cleared for long, after having taken their quota of victims, but numerous wild areas still give their annual harvest of rusted cylinders of death. Some are really huge, but the danger comes from the smallest ones (37 to 75mm) that a child could handle.

 

Condolences to the German bomb disposal experts. All of these professionals are pure heroes.