Video: Digger triggers old World War Two bomb explosion, killing driver Television footage from the scene showed the mangled wreckage of the digger's cab and a nearby hut, and windows and doors blown out by the blast. During excavations...the digger uncovered a wartime bomb, which exploded. The driver was killed, and several others close to the digger were hurt. Two are seriously injured and six lightly," police spokesman Norbert Hardt said. "The blast caused significant damage, also in neighbouring streets where glass and garage doors were blown out," he added. Euskirchen is situated in North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW), Germany's most populous state. During World War Two the state was pounded by Allied bombs, as it is home to one of Germany's most dense industrial areas. Officials from the North Rhine-Westphalia Office of Criminal Investigations stand next to a digger that was damaged in the explosion of a World War II bomb at a construction site in Euskirchen, Germany, on 03 January 2014 (Photo: Reuters) Every year hundreds of war-time bombs are still uncovered in Germany, though most are successfully detonated. NRW's interior ministry said it defused 706 bombs in 2012. Experts increasingly use Allies' war-time aerial photographs to find unexploded bombs, although many are also uncovered accidentally during construction work. Sources: ITN/Reuters