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The explosion at the station

Peñaranda de Bracamonte, Tierra de Peñaranda, Salamanca

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The explosion at the station

Historical milestone · Peñaranda de Bracamonte, Tierra de Peñaranda, Salamanca

On 9 July 1939 the munitions store installed at the town's railway station exploded. The catastrophe caused more than a hundred deaths and some fifteen hundred injured, and destroyed close to a thousand buildings in the town.

9 de julio de 1939

Photo: David Vicente Martín (CC BY-SA 4.0)

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