[CPEO-MEF] Mass Evacuation After French WW1 Bomb Stock Scare

[mervtano@iiirm.org]

Friday April 13 7:23 AM ET
Mass Evacuation After French WW1 Bomb Stock Scare


LILLE, France (Reuters) - Thousands of people living near a stockpile of
World War One artillery shells and chemical weapons in northern France were
ordered to leave their homes on Friday after experts said the bombs risked
exploding.

Police staked out a 1.8 mile exclusion zone around the open-air depot at
Vimy, site of a ferocious Canadian assault on German trenches at Easter
1917, and told residents they would not be able to return for around 10
days.

For more see:
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010413/wl/france_bombs_dc_2.html



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