Suspected World War II bomb explodes in Indonesia, killing 5 people

A suspected shell left over from World War II exploded under a stilt house in an Indonesian fishing village, killing five people and wounding nearly 20, police said Monday.

Bombs left over from the war have been found around the globe in recent years, and some of them have exploded.

In March, an unexploded World War II bomb was successfully defused in the German city of Dresden after thousands of residents were evacuated.

Last October, two men were hospitalized in Poland after a World War II artillery shell that one of them had found in a forest and brought back home exploded.

In March 2025, a World War II bomb was found near the tracks of Paris’ Gare du Nord station. The month before that, more than 170 bombs were found near a children’s playground in northern England.

In 2024, an unexploded U.S. bomb from World War II that had been buried at a Japanese airport exploded, causing a large crater in a taxiway and the cancellation of more than 80 flights.

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