What the records say
- When
- 18 Jun 1946
- Kind
- Explosion
- Coordinates
- 52.49° N, 10.11° E
- Description
- explosion of ammunition in 1946 in a mine in Region Hannover, Germany
- Deaths
- 86
2 sources record it
- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Im Kaliwerk Niedersachsen-Riedel, Teil der Heeresmunitionsanstalt Hänigsen, explodieren mehrere tausend Tonnen Munition; 83 Männer kommen ums Leben, 3 weitere…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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