Several people were injured in the explosion of an aircraft bomb from World War II on Wednesday in Munich. The detonation occurred on a Deutsche Bahn construction site near the Donnersbergerbrücke, the police said. One person was seriously injured, three other people were slightly injured. Experts from the ordnance disposal service were involved in the investigation.
Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann (CSU) was at the scene of the accident at noon to get an idea of the situation. An aerial bomb weighing 250 kilograms was hit during drilling, said Herrmann, who wished the injured a good recovery. Why the bomb was not discovered earlier is still unclear. Normally, during construction work in downtown Munich, it is always carefully and regularly probed where duds could be.
