A World War II bomb killed one man and injured another in Ostrava, eastern Czech Republic, on Friday (April 8th) when it exploded during excavation work, police and media reported.
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“We can confirm that the explosion was caused by World War II munitions“, said the police on Twitter. According to local media, a 49-year-old man died while another man suffered a minor head injury. Police evacuated about 50 people from homes within 300 meters of the site.
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Munitions dating from the Second World War are common in the north-eastern Czech Republic, which the Red Army had passed through in the spring of 1945. Last autumn, the police twice evacuated more than 1,000 people in Ostrava, following discovering unexploded ordnance.
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