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IN NAPLES ARTILLERY BARRACKS TRAP LEFT SET BY GERMANS LARGE BUILDING CRASHES ON OCCUPANTS. OVER 20 BODIES RECOVERED. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.45 a.m.) RUGBY, October 11. The biggest explosion since the Allied occupation of Naples occurred yesterday, when two tons of dynamite, with a time fuse, laid by the Germans in a subterranean passage in the Artillery Barracks, blew up. There was a terrific explosion, causing the whole of one side of a three-storey building to crash, completely burying the occupants. Over twenty bodies have been recovered. The barracks had been inspected for booby traps, but the explosive had been so cunningly buried that it defied detection. A Combined Press correspondent reports that 25 dead and 35 wounded have already been removed from the Naples Artillery Barracks. Rescuers are still working. The explosion rocked the centre of the city and a great column of smoke and dust rose up. Dozens of men were trapped under the ruins.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 12 October 1943, Page 3
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