French Teen Killed by WWI Shell

From: Nigel Hay - MILWEB (Nigel@milweb.net)
Date: Fri Nov 01 2002 - 23:53:31 PST

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Associated press reports.....
 

Thursday October 31, 2002 12:40 AM

COLMAR, France (AP) - A French teenager was killed and two children
were injured Wednesday by a World War I mortar shell, firefighters
said.

The children were playing with the shell in a courtyard in
Wettolsheim, eastern France, when it exploded, the firefighters
said.

A 14-year-old was killed. His younger brother was wounded in the leg
and another child was injured.

Residents in the region occasionally find buried shells from the
war, which ended 84 years ago.

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