WWII Explosives Kill French GI in Germany
A campfire lit by French soldiers on maneuvers in West Germany on Sunday set off World War II explosives still buried in the ground, killing one soldier and injuring 11, West German police said.
The accident happened at Grissheim on the Rhine River near the Franco-German border, police in the nearby town of Freiburg said.
A dozen soldiers from the French 16th Pioneer Regiment stationed in West Germany gathered around a campfire on the river bank early in the morning.
Police said heat from the campfire apparently detonated munitions, possibly a mine or a grenade, buried in the ground since the war.
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