Spanish Civil War bomb found after man recalls childhood attack


  • World
  • Sunday, 16 Jan 2022

MADRID (Reuters) - Police deactivated an unexploded bomb from the Spanish Civil War after a man remembered that Italian fascist bombers had dropped it on his town when he was a child more than 80 years ago.

Work on a building in Maella, near Zaragoza in northeastern Spain, was halted after the man said that when he was six-years-old the building was bombed but the device failed to explode.

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