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Smoke rises over the Rheinbach ammunition depot of the Bundeswehr
Photo: Benedict Lickfeld / dpa
Several vehicles caught fire on Tuesday at a Bundeswehr ammunition store in Rheinbach near Bonn.
According to a spokesman for the armed forces base, the fire broke out when a tanker truck tried to fill a so-called tank bomb - a kind of small gas station - with diesel.
The truck and another sprinter would have caught fire.
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The cloud of smoke could still be seen from a great distance.
According to the information, there were no injuries.
The fire was extinguished in the late afternoon.
Several media reported.
According to the Bundeswehr, road works are currently being carried out on the ammunition depot by a civilian company.
In order to refuel the construction site vehicles, the so-called tank bomb is filled with fuel.
mjm / dpa
