World War II Bomb Kills One Person in Germany BERLIN - The explosion of a World War II bomb in a town in western Germany killed one person and wounded at least 13 others on Friday, the police said. A bulldozer operator set off the bomb during construction work in Euskirchen, near Bonn, the former capital. The explosion hurled rocks and debris through the air, and the resulting shock wave damaged buildings nearly half a kilometer away, a police spokesman said. "It looks like a battlefield here," said Helmut Conrads, a police spokesman who was at the scene. All the windows, everything is in pieces. It's insane. The bomb was "definitely from the Second World War," Mr. Conrads said, adding that after the blast the area around the site was closed off and a bomb squad was called to search for any more ordnance. On social media sites, users posted pictures of windows shattered and garage doors left crooked from the shock wave. Several people on Twitter said they could feel the explosion about 30 kilometers, or 19 miles, away in Bonn. Germany is littered with unexploded ordnance from the war, and while bombs are frequently uncovered, fatalities are rare.