DEATHS IN MINE EXPLOSION
100 MEN BELIEVED KILLED GERMAN AMMUNITION ON FIRE (Rec. 9 p.m.) HANOVER, June 19. One hundred German workers and displaced persons are believed to have been killed yesterdey in an explosion which followed a fire in a German ammunition dump at Haengse, near Burgdorf, 15 miles north-east of Hanover. The dump, which was one of the largest in the British zone, was located at three different levels in a, disused salt mine. The ammunition since the occupation had .gradually been removed, but 10,000 tons are estimated to have remained at the time of the explosion. Those believed killed were working underground when the explosion occurred. The explosion shattered one of the steel bulkhead doors connecting
with a potash-mine three miles away. Fumes from the potash mine prevented rescue squads nearing the scene of the explosion. British troops have sealed. off the mine and experts believe there is now no likelihood of further explosions.
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24907, 21 June 1946, Page 7
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157DEATHS IN MINE EXPLOSION Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24907, 21 June 1946, Page 7
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