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Wildfires expose - and detonate - buried bombs and mines from WWI and WWII

Wildfires expose - and detonate - buried bombs and mines from WWI and WWII
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The wildfires burning across Europe this summer have exposed a potentially deadly threat lurking beneath the blackened landscape: rusty bombs and mines from World War I and II.

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