What happened

Workers found an unexploded Second World War-era bomb inside the ORLEN Unipetrol refinery complex at Litvínov, prompting an evacuation and full shutdown of the site for safety reasons. Police conducted a controlled detonation on 30 August. This was not an industrial accident, but a major forced refinery shutdown driven by legacy wartime ordnance.

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