Australian killed in Solomon Islands bomb blast

An Australian bomb disposal expert and his British colleague have died in an explosion of suspected World War Two munitions in the Solomon Islands. The exact cause of the blast that killed the two aid workers is still unknown, but police have removed a number of unexploded bombs from the site.

Bomb scene under investigation in Honiara Source: Royal Solomon Islands Police Force

In the capital of the Solomon Islands, police are investigating how a World War Two bomb came to kill two aid workers. Late on Sunday night, Australian Trent Lee and his British colleague Stephen 'Luke' Atkinson were rushed to hospital after the explosion, at a residential building in an upmarket Honiara suburb. Both died of their injuries. The two men were munitions experts, disposing of unexploded bombs from the Second World War for a Norwegian aid agency.

 

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