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A man remembered where they had planted a bomb… from the Spanish Civil War 80 years ago

Police turned off one bomb which had not exploded from him Spanish Civil War War thanks to a man who recalled that Italian fascist forces had thrown her in his hometown when he was a child more than 80 years ago.

Work in Majea, near Zaragoza in northeastern Spain, was halted when the man said he had been bombed at the age of six but had not detonated the bomb.

Metal detectors were used to locate the 50-kilogram bomb dropped by the Italian Air Force, which had been drawn up by the forces of dictator Francisco Franco during the war (1936-1939).

“A resident of the area warned the owner of the building to be careful during the works because during the Civil War, when he was six years old, the city was bombed and one of the bombs did not explode. “Then that point was covered with cement,” the Spanish militia said in a statement.

Firefighters carried out a controlled explosion on January 10, but the incident became known today.

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