The danger has not yet been averted.
After a rifle grenade exploded by itself in the course of construction work on Tuesday afternoon at Schopfgraben in Miesbach, another self-triggering occurred this morning: Phosphorus ignites a small fire not far away.
It is the same principle as with the detonation of the explosive device at the beginning of the week: the relic from the Second World War ignited in the morning around 9 a.m. without any outside influence.
Again, nobody was harmed in the small fire.
There is also no property damage.
Like the grenade, the phosphorus had apparently reached the surface as part of the construction work to secure the slope below Frauenschulstrasse during excavation work and so reacted with a second delay.
A specialist company had examined the site for further explosive devices on Wednesday, but had not found anything (we reported).
For the city, this new incident means that construction work there is now being continued with great caution.
"We will have the next steps accompanied by experts," explains Mayor Gerhard Braunmiller.
Disaster control at the district office is also involved.
"We will be careful after it has been shown that a lot has apparently been put there in the past."
Braunmiller explains that the mine search team's investigations were inconclusive in the middle of the week: "Unfortunately, the phosphor was not in a metal container."
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