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Lee Bullen

VIDEO: Civil Roar: Bomb Dropped 80 Years Ago Finally Deactivated

The childhood memories of a 97-year-old man helped Spanish authorities locate a bomb that was dropped in Maella but never detonated during the country's civil war. (Spanish Civil Guard/Zenger)

Spanish Civil Guard experts detonated a bomb dropped during the Spanish Civil War after a man recalled it had been dropped on a nearby farm by the Italian air force when he was a child more than 80 years ago.

The 97-year-old man, whose name not disclosed, was 6 years old when the bomb fell but did not explode on a property in Maella in the country’s northeast.

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