Germany An explosion at a chemical plant in Germany leaves 1 dead and 4 missing
Four people were injured when an old plane bomb exploded on a bridge near
Munich's
busy
main
train
station
on Wednesday, police said on Twitter, raising the number of injuries after the three initially announced.
The Munich fire brigade said one of the people was seriously injured.
More than 2,000 tons of live bombs and munitions are discovered each year in Germany, more than 70 years after the end of World War II.
British and American warplanes shelled the country with
1.5 million tons of bombs
that killed 600,000 people.
Authorities estimate that 15% of the bombs did not explode, some of which were buried six meters (20 feet) deep.
The blast occurred while the area was being drilled to build a tunnel,
police said, adding that the area had been cordoned off.
"There is no danger outside of this area," police said.
Explosives experts were called to the scene to examine the remains of the bomb, the fire department said.
Due to the explosion,
train
travel
to and from the main train station
was suspended
, according to the rail operator Deutsche Bahn.
It was unclear when rail traffic would resume.
World War II bombs are regularly discovered during construction work in Germany and are usually
defused by experts or destroyed in controlled explosions.
However, there have been cases of deadly explosions
in the past.
Three explosives-savvy police officers were killed in Goettingen in 2010 while preparing to defuse a 1,000-pound bomb, and in 2014 a construction worker in Euskirchen was killed when his electric shovel struck a buried 4,000-pound bomb.
In 1994, three Berlin construction workers were killed in a similar accident.
In 2012, a fireball lit up the sky in Munich, causing millions of euros in damage to 17 buildings, when authorities had to detonate a damaged 500-pound bomb.
In 2015, a 1,000-pound bomb blew a 10-foot-deep hole in a highway near Offenbach in central Germany.
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