A big blaze in a Berlin forest that was accompanied by a number of explosions at an ammunition web site is now contained, say firefighters.
Fireplace crews had been scrambled to the blaze in Grunewald Forest within the west of the German capital on Thursday morning.
But, whereas the fireplace is now largely underneath management, there are fears of additional explosions.
Authorities on Friday are hoping to get a better take a look at the ammunition web site, with assist from armoured autos and robots.
The location is much from the closest houses and nobody needed to be evacuated. However there may be nonetheless a one-kilometre exclusion zone across the web site and a close-by freeway and railway line remained closed on Friday.
It stays unclear what triggered the primary explosions on the ammunition web site.
The location was created in Chilly Struggle-era West Berlin in 1950, and fireworks, World Struggle II ammunition and different explosive ordnance had been saved there earlier than the fireplace began.
Managed blasts are carried on the market twice a 12 months.
The town authorities have made makes an attempt to discover a extra appropriate location to maneuver the dump away from the forest, however have failed to take action previously.
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