In Slovenia, wildfires setting off hundreds of unexploded bombs on WWI battlefields

(BUSINESS INSIDER) – The summer's unusually hot temperatures have led to several wildfires across Europe and, according to Vice World News, they are setting off unexploded World War 1 bombs in the process.

A wildfire in the southwest Kras region of Slovenia, which officials told The Washington Post was the biggest since the country's independence in 1991, has destroyed more than 8,000 acres of farmland.

It's also led to the explosion of countless WWI-era bombs, which had laid dormant for more than 100 years, per reports.

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