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Fatal WWII bomb blast in Indonesia was a result of illegal fishing activity, police say

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Fatal WWII bomb blast in Indonesia was a result of illegal fishing activity, police say
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BIAK, Indonesia — The munition here had outlasted one of the Pacific’s fiercest World War II battles. Eight decades later, investigators in Indonesia said it exploded by the timber-framed houses in the coastal village of Fandoi on Indonesia’s Biak Island. Investigators and officials later concluded a group of local fishers were dismantling an unexploded munition recovered from coastal waters off Papua, where some of the Pacific’s most intense fighting took place in 1944. “They

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