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Munich bomb exploded - flames on the roofs
The bomb in the Schwabing district of Munich was blown up on Tuesday evening. After the blast were several roof trusses in flames. The fires were quickly extinguished before the fire.
A few hours after the explosion of a bomb in Munich on Tuesday evening, the first residents have returned home. The evacuation area was reduced early Wednesday morning, said the Munich Fire.
Because of a high explosive bomb from the Second World War in the early hours of Tuesday, 2500 residents had been forced to leave their homes. How many of them were after the blast back to their homes, it was unclear until Wednesday morning.
In the streets surrounding the explosion site were loud fire after the explosion zerborstener many shards of glass windows. There have been places where subsequent fires. Therefore, residents of this area were not immediately returned home. Experts should first examine the homes located directly on the site for damage.
Explosion heard in all of Munich
After the dud on Monday discovered could not be defused as planned, he was blasted controls on Tuesday night a few minutes before 22.00 clock by specialists. The blast could be heard for miles in the great city of 1.4 million inhabitants, has been injured, according to fire at all the action yet.
"In the immediate vicinity are almost all windows got broken", Diethard Posorski from demolition squad Munich said after the action of the news agency dpa. Yet the Kampfmittelrumer was satisfied. Major damage to the neighboring houses are not visible.
The fire after the explosion but had to delete several small fires. A fire department spokesman said that the straw that has been built in the area to verringen the pressure on detonation, burst into flames and was thrown through the area.
The burning straw bales landed partially on the roofs of the neighboring houses. "It will look spectacular out," the fire department spokesman. The fires were quickly extinguished, however, the stores had not spread the flames. Overall, the blast went well.
Defusing was impossible
Originally, the 250-pound bomb to be defused in the evening on Monday, this was not possible. As the experts realized that the bomb is extremely dangerous and could go off at any time, was still in the early hours of Tuesday a major evacuation in a radius of 300 meters. Around 2500 people were forced to stay with friends or in shelters.
On Tuesday afternoon, the authorities widened the exclusion zone around the locality on the former site of the cult pub "Schwabing 7" out. In a radius of one kilometer from the site where the five-pound bomb is no longer allowed to stay outside Munich. Residents in the area were allowed to remain in their homes, but had to stay away from their windows.
Many roads were also blocked, as well as the subway station Mnchner Freiheit and three other stations, two metro lines were cut. Even the busy middle ring, something like the Munich motorway was not fully navigable.
Unusual firing mechanism
Defusing was delayed further and further, because 70 cars towed away and the locality as well as possible had to be protected. Employees of ordnance Rumdienstes distributed 10,000 sandbags around the bomb to keep the shrapnel from the explosion effects as low as possible.
When the bomb that had been about three feet deep in the ground, it was, according to Posorkis an American bomb with slow fuse which should be triggered by a glass vial with acetone.
A disarm is more difficult than for a purely mechanical functioning bomb with impact fuse. Only about ten percent of the bombs were fitted according to experts with such a long time fuses. But because they often failed, their share of duds is high.
The 250-pound bomb was found on Monday during construction work in the Schwabing district. First, should only about 800 people to leave their homes. Late on Monday evening decided to use the line to expand the evacuation zone. Other 1700 residents had in schools and other collective accommodation
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Munich bomb exploded - flames on the roofs
The bomb in the Schwabing district of Munich was blown up on Tuesday evening. After the blast were several roof trusses in flames. The fires were quickly extinguished before the fire.
A few hours after the explosion of a bomb in Munich on Tuesday evening, the first residents have returned home. The evacuation area was reduced early Wednesday morning, said the Munich Fire.
Because of a high explosive bomb from the Second World War in the early hours of Tuesday, 2500 residents had been forced to leave their homes. How many of them were after the blast back to their homes, it was unclear until Wednesday morning.
In the streets surrounding the explosion site were loud fire after the explosion zerborstener many shards of glass windows. There have been places where subsequent fires. Therefore, residents of this area were not immediately returned home. Experts should first examine the homes located directly on the site for damage.
Explosion heard in all of Munich
After the dud on Monday discovered could not be defused as planned, he was blasted controls on Tuesday night a few minutes before 22.00 clock by specialists. The blast could be heard for miles in the great city of 1.4 million inhabitants, has been injured, according to fire at all the action yet.
"In the immediate vicinity are almost all windows got broken", Diethard Posorski from demolition squad Munich said after the action of the news agency dpa. Yet the Kampfmittelrumer was satisfied. Major damage to the neighboring houses are not visible.
The fire after the explosion but had to delete several small fires. A fire department spokesman said that the straw that has been built in the area to verringen the pressure on detonation, burst into flames and was thrown through the area.
The burning straw bales landed partially on the roofs of the neighboring houses. "It will look spectacular out," the fire department spokesman. The fires were quickly extinguished, however, the stores had not spread the flames. Overall, the blast went well.
Defusing was impossible
Originally, the 250-pound bomb to be defused in the evening on Monday, this was not possible. As the experts realized that the bomb is extremely dangerous and could go off at any time, was still in the early hours of Tuesday a major evacuation in a radius of 300 meters. Around 2500 people were forced to stay with friends or in shelters.
On Tuesday afternoon, the authorities widened the exclusion zone around the locality on the former site of the cult pub "Schwabing 7" out. In a radius of one kilometer from the site where the five-pound bomb is no longer allowed to stay outside Munich. Residents in the area were allowed to remain in their homes, but had to stay away from their windows.
Many roads were also blocked, as well as the subway station Mnchner Freiheit and three other stations, two metro lines were cut. Even the busy middle ring, something like the Munich motorway was not fully navigable.
Unusual firing mechanism
Defusing was delayed further and further, because 70 cars towed away and the locality as well as possible had to be protected. Employees of ordnance Rumdienstes distributed 10,000 sandbags around the bomb to keep the shrapnel from the explosion effects as low as possible.
When the bomb that had been about three feet deep in the ground, it was, according to Posorkis an American bomb with slow fuse which should be triggered by a glass vial with acetone.
A disarm is more difficult than for a purely mechanical functioning bomb with impact fuse. Only about ten percent of the bombs were fitted according to experts with such a long time fuses. But because they often failed, their share of duds is high.
The 250-pound bomb was found on Monday during construction work in the Schwabing district. First, should only about 800 people to leave their homes. Late on Monday evening decided to use the line to expand the evacuation zone. Other 1700 residents had in schools and other collective accommodation
