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Laschet tunnel

Laschet tunnel

The starting signal of World War I in Belgium

On Monday evening, 3 August 1914, an explosion signalled the start of World War I in Belgium. Belgian combat engineers detonated the southern portal of the Laschet train tunnel.

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