The bodies of 21 German soldiers entombed in a perfectly preserved World War One shelter have been discovered 94 years after they were killed.
The
men were part of a larger group of 34 who were buried alive when a huge
Allied shell exploded above the tunnel in 1918, causing it to cave in.
Thirteen
bodies were recovered from the underground shelter, but the remaining
men had to be left under a mountain of mud as it was too dangerous to
retrieve them.
Nearly a
century later, French archaeologists stumbled upon the mass grave on the
former Western Front in eastern France during excavation work for a
road building project.


Mass grave: The bodies of 21 German soldiers
entombed in a perfectly preserved First World War shelter have been
discovered in France 94 years after they were killed


Amazing condition: The soldiers were buried
alive in mud inside the underground shelter (left) which contained items
including beds, a bottle and a helmet (right)
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