An 11-year-old boy was seriously injured this Sunday by the explosion of an old ammunition near Troyes in the Aube. His parents and two older sisters witnessed the accident, which occurred in the late morning in the town of Saint-Julien-les-Villas.
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According to the prefecture, the boy found this ammunition in the garden of the family home. He was playing with when she fell to the ground, triggering the explosion.
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The victim, touched by an upper limb, was heliported to the hospital center of Reims.
An investigation is opened to determine the circumstances of the tragedy. The prefecture indicates that the ammunition could not be dated because it was "totally dislocated" in the explosion.