FOUR DEATHS.
PLANE CRASH AT MUNICH. NUMBER- OF PEOPLE INJURED. (United- Press Association —Copyright.) BERLIN, February 7. A later report concerning the crash of a bomber in a street in Munich is that the death roll has reached four, including a woman. All the victims were burned to death. A woman’s burning and mutilated body was found in a beer hall opposite, while flames caught the overcoats of three men leaving the hall, causing fatal injuries. The number of injured is believed to be much higher than the authorities will so far admit. Five people sitting near the window of the beer hall were injured by flying wreckage. Parts of the engine flew through the window of a. neighbouring flat and wrecked a room, just missing a sleeping child. Shop girls were injured by' fragments of glass, as the machine hit a shop window and then lay blazing on the pavement. The police have warned everyone near the spot not to give information on pain of imprisonment.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 100, 8 February 1936, Page 5
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