ARMS DUMP EXPLODES
One Dead, Nine Injured
(Rec. 10 p.m.) VERONA (North Italy), June 12. Soldiers began a full-scale search of the devastated and flreseared munitions dump at "Rivoli, near Verona, at dawn today for the bodies of workers who might have been killed in yesterday's explosions.
The official casualty list is one dead and nine injured, but police said that in last night's confusion it had been impossible to make a complete roll call of the 90 persons working in the dump area when it erupted in a holocaust of exploding rockets, shells, and grenades.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28920, 13 June 1959, Page 13
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