Citation

Stockhausen S, Wöllner K, Madea B, Doberentz E. Arch. Kriminol. 2014; 234(5-6): 174-182.

Vernacular Title

Tod durch Explosion einer Luftmine.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Verlag Schmidt-Romhild)

DOI

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PMID

26548019

Abstract

Civilians are rarely killed by military weapons except in times of war. In early 2014, a 50-year-old man died in an explosion of an aerial mine from the Second World War when he was crushing concrete chunks with an excavator at a recycling plant. In the burned operator's cab, the remains of a body were found on the driver's seat. The thorax and the head were missing. Still sticking in the shoe, the right foot severed at the ankle was found about 7 m from the excavator together with numerous small to tiny body parts. At autopsy, the completely disrupted, strongly charred lower torso of a male connected to the left extremities as well as a large number of small tissue fragments and calcined bones were found. According to calculations performed by the seismographical station on the basis of seismic data, only about 45-60 percent of the charge had detonated. The autopsy results illustrate all the more the massive impact of such an explosion.

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