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FRANKFURT

Dortmund top as Bayern Munich struggle

A glut of goals made for an exciting second weekend of the Bundesliga, with two late strikes sending Borussia Dortmund top of leauge on Sunday evening.

Published: 19 August 2013 08:26 CEST
Dortmund top as Bayern Munich struggle
Photo: DPA

They sealed a 2-1 home win over Eintracht Braunschweig with goals from Marco Reus and Jonas Hofmann.

The 21-year-old Hofmann grabbed the limelight from Dortmund’s record-signing Henrikh Mkhitaryan, who made his debut after costing €27.5 million from Shakhtar Donetsk.

The Champions League runners-up are top the table on goal difference ahead of Bayern Munich and Bayer Leverkusen.

Hertha Berlin, who had been top of the league going into the weekend, could only manage a 2-2 draw at Nuremberg thanks to a late equaliser from Japan midfielder Hiroshi Kiyotake.

On Saturday, defending champions Bayern Munich laboured to a 1-0 win at Eintracht Frankfurt while both Hamburg and Schalke 04 suffered heavy defeats which left Leverkusen in second after their 1-0 win at VfB Stuttgart.

Croatia striker Mario Mandzukic gave Bayern the three points at Frankfurt

when he volleyed home a cross from Germany’s Thomas Müller on 13 minutes.

It was a rare highlight in a below-par performance as Bayern failed to dominate, despite enjoying 70 percent possession, while Frankfurt captain Alex Meier had a goal ruled offside and a penalty appeal turned down in the dying stages.

Brazil midfielder Luiz Gustavo, who signed for Wolfsburg last week from Bayern after rejecting offers from Arsenal and Barcelona, made his debut in their 4-0 rout at home over Schalke 04.

Hamburg, meanwhile, were humiliated 5-1 at home by Hoffenheim as Brazilian striker Roberto Firmino ran riot, scoring twice and setting up the other three.

Mainz enjoyed a 2-1 win at Freiburg while Bremen picked up another win with

a 1-0 victory at home over Bavaria’s Augsburg.

Borussia Mönchengladbach bounced back from their opening day defeat at

Bayern with a 3-0 win at home against Hanover 96.

AFP/tsb

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MUNICH

Four injured as WWII bomb explodes near Munich train station

Four people were injured, one of them seriously, when a World War II bomb exploded at a building site near Munich's main train station on Wednesday, emergency services said.

Published: 1 December 2021 16:41 CET
Smoke rises after the WWII bomb exploded on a building site in Munich.
Smoke rises after the WWII bomb exploded on a building site in Munich. Photo: picture alliance/dpa | Privat

Construction workers had been drilling into the ground when the bomb exploded, a spokesman for the fire department said in a statement.

The blast was heard several kilometres away and scattered debris hundreds of metres, according to local media reports.

Images showed a plume of smoke rising directly next to the train tracks.

Bavaria interior minister Joachim Herrmann told Bild that the whole area was being searched.

Deutsche Bahn suspended its services on the affected lines in the afternoon.

Although trains started up again from 3pm, the rail operator said there would still be delays and cancellations to long-distance and local travel in the Munich area until evening. 

According to the fire service, the explosion happened near a bridge that must be passed by all trains travelling to or from the station.

The exact cause of the explosion is unclear, police said. So far, there are no indications of a criminal act.

WWII bombs are common in Germany

Some 75 years after the war, Germany remains littered with unexploded ordnance, often uncovered during construction work.

READ ALSO: What you need to know about WWII bomb disposals in Germany

However, most bombs are defused by experts before they explode.

Last year, seven World War II bombs were found on the future location of Tesla’s first European factory, just outside Berlin.

Sizeable bombs were also defused in Cologne and Dortmund last year.

In 2017, the discovery of a 1.4-tonne bomb in Frankfurt prompted the evacuation of 65,000 people — the largest such operation since the end of the war in Europe in 1945.

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