Explosion near München HBF - WWII Bomb detonates on construction site

[gordonthemoron]

Explosion at Munich HBF construction site a WWII bomb seems to have exploded 90 mins ago, injuring 3 people, one seriously. Friends believe it's on the route of the new Stammstrecke

 

[The exile]

Explosion at Munich HBF construction site a WWII bomb seems to have exploded 90 mins ago, injuring 3 people, one seriously. Friends believe it's on the route of the new Stammstrecke

The linked site says it occurred on a DBAG construction site - so quite likely to be connected with those works.

 

[gordonthemoron]

The linked site says it occurred on a DBAG construction site - so quite likely to be connected with those works.

DBAG run the Munich S Bahn, so that would make sense

 

[The exile]

The linked site says it occurred on a DBAG construction site - so quite likely to be connected with those works.

Now confirmed by police - as well as the fact that it was a WWII bomb.

 

[Gloster]

How long before Boris Johnson, Liz Truss or Lord Frost starts proclaiming the sturdiness and reliability of British manufacturing exports. It still works over seventy-five years after it was sent abroad.

 

[Ash Bridge]

How long before Boris Johnson, Liz Truss or Lord Frost starts proclaiming the sturdiness and reliability of British manufacturing exports. It still works over seventy-five years after it was sent abroad.

until someone then points out that it actually didn’t work when it was meant to?

 

[Gloster]

until someone then points out that it actually didn’t work when it was meant to?

Little details like that are ignored when you are dealing with political salesmanship.

 

[Ash Bridge]

Little details like that are ignored when you are dealing with political salesmanship.

Most certainly.

 

[gordonthemoron]

How long before Boris Johnson, Liz Truss or Lord Frost starts proclaiming the sturdiness and reliability of British manufacturing exports. It still works over seventy-five years after it was sent abroad.

It's more likely to have been American

 

[JKF]

Hope the injured recover quickly, don’t want anyone becoming the last known victim of WW2 (a title that I believe was held by two unfortunates whose piling rig encountered a WW2 bomb in Germany in the 1990s, at least according to the guy running the ordnance recognition training I did about a decade ago).

Edit: Malaysia 2017 was the last known fatality I could find with a bomb detonating on a construction site in Kuala Lumpar. Grim that the death continues 70 years on.

 

[StephenHunter]

Hope the injured recover quickly, don’t want anyone becoming the last known victim of WW2 (a title that I believe was held by two unfortunates whose piling rig encountered a WW2 bomb in Germany in the 1990s, at least according to the guy running the ordnance recognition training I did about a decade ago).

Edit: Malaysia 2017 was the last known fatality I could find with a bomb detonating on a construction site in Kuala Lumpar. Grim that the death continues 70 years on.

Still people dying from Great War ordnance in France I believe.