FIFTY-EIGHT KILLED
DISASTER IN OSLO AMMUNITION DUMP EXPLODES (Rec. 11.20 a.m.) OSLO, August 17. At least 58 people were killed and 'many hundreds injured when an ammunition store in the dock area blew up at noon to-day. German labourers were unloading small arms and 38 millimetre explosives from a train to a barge when some exploded. , Those killed comprised 43 Germans and 15 Norwegian guards. Many British and American military personnel were injured. The quay was destroyed" and two trains demolished. The entire city was shaken.
Considerable damage was done by blast. Firemen are working hard to save the,lives of those trapped. It is not known whether the explosion was caused by sabotage.
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Evening Star, Issue 25565, 18 August 1945, Page 8
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