WWI Bombs Are Still Being Found Over 100 Years Later
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July 5, 2019
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5:34Now PlayingTens of millions of unexploded WWI bombs still litter the fields of eastern France one hundred years after the war ended. And people still die when they accidentally explode -- farmers, collectors, and occasionally even members of the de-mining teams sent to diffuse
and destroy them. VICE News embeds with a bomb squad in Metz, near some of the deadliest battlefields of Verdun, as they go about their grave, daily mission driving to farms to gather unexploded bombs, diffuse them, or safely blow them up on the spot
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