Ruins of Ypres, 1919. Photograph by W.L. King
Two men have died and at least two more have been injured after a World War I shell or grenade exploded in Flanders.
The explosion occurred near to the town of Ypres, as the men disturbed the unexploded ordnance while working near the canal in the town.
Hundreds of weapons from the war are still dug up each year, although most are safely destroyed by the Belgian military bomb squad.
Ypres was the location of some of the bloodiest battles of the Great War, with the town completely destroyed in the fighting from 1914 to 1918. Thousands of soldiers died in the fields around the town, with bodies still regularly discovered by farmers ploughing their fields.
