FIVE people have been killed and three others are missing after a huge explosion rocked a residential area in Indonesia. Police said the blast in Biak Kota District, Biak Numfor, Papua was

A suspected shell left over from World War II exploded under a house, killing five people and wounding nearly 20, police said Monday.

A World War II-era bomb exploded in Biak Numfor Regency in Indonesia’s Papua Province on Sunday, May 31, killing at least five people, according to local authorities. Three people remain missing as the search and investigation into the explosion continue.

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A suspected World War II-era shell exploded beneath a stilt house in a fishing village in Indonesia's eastern Papua region on Sunday, killing five people, injuring nearly 20 others, and destroying several homes.

The island, located just off the northwest coast of mainland Papua, was a key WWII battleground between United States and Japanese forces, though police have yet to uncover how the bomb ended up in the coastal fisheries settlement in Yanures village,

Authorities say the cause of the explosion is still under investigation.