A World War II bomb blast near a train station in Munich, Germany

According to IRNA on Wednesday night, quoted by Reuters; Seventy years after the end of World War II, more than 2,000 tons of bombs and explosive devices are discovered and defused in Germany each year. British and American bombers dropped 1.5 million tons of bombs on German soil during this period, killing 600,000 civilians. According to official estimates, 15% of these bombs did not explode and some remained hidden at a depth of 6 meters.

Munich city officials say one of the men was seriously injured in the blast while digging to build a tunnel, and an explosives expert has been called to the scene to investigate the remains of the bomb.

Although World War II surviving bombs still discovered during construction operations in Germany are usually destroyed by neutral or controlled explosions, there have been instances of deadly explosions in the past. .

Three German police explosives experts were killed in 2010 while preparing to defuse a 1,000-pound bomb in Gوتttingen, and a construction worker was buried in 2014 after his drilling machine blade struck a 4,000-pound bomb. , Died. Three construction workers also died in a similar accident in Berlin in 1994.

A detonated 500-pound bomb in Munich in 2012 also damaged 17 buildings by millions of euros. The explosion of a 1,000-pound bomb in 2015 created a three-meter-deep hole in a highway in central Germany.

The German railway company Deutsche Bahn announced that trains to and from Munich’s main station had stopped following the incident and it was not clear when it would resume.