英国南部一处住宅发生爆炸 两人死亡

2026年5月3日 21:45 / 联合早报

英国警方说，英国南部城市布里斯托尔一处住宅发生爆炸，造成两人死亡。

综合路透社和新华社报道，警方星期天（5月3日）发布声明说，当天早上警方接获报案后，随即封锁斯特恩科特路（Sterncourt Road）一带，疏散附近居民。

警方认为这起爆炸案有可疑之处，已将案件列为重大事件处理，但强调目前“并未将这起事件视为疑似恐怖袭击”。

警方补充说，目前正在布里斯托尔郊区一处与本案有关的物业展开调查。据悉，其他房产也没有受到重大损害。

ActBlue sues Texas AG Ken Paxton, alleging political retaliation over Democrats’ fundraising

2026-05-03 09:47 EDT / Fox News

ActBlue: Paxton’s case rife with ‘false, inflammatory allegations’

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Published May 3, 2026 9:47am EDT

Trump directs DOJ to probe Democrats’ top fundraising platform

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Democratic fundraising platform ActBlue is suing Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, accusing the Republican of using his office for “retaliation” to punish the group for its political work and asking a federal judge to block his investigations and litigation against the organization.

“ActBlue is trying to take me down,” Paxton, who is running for Senate in Texas, wrote on X. “I sued the fundraising platform for deceiving Americans by lying about its donation processes that allow fraudulent and foreign donations.

“I will hold those who break the law accountable.”

The ActBlue lawsuit, filed Friday in federal court in Boston, seeks to counter the case Paxton brought last month in Texas state court accusing ActBlue of misleading Congress and the public about its donation practices. ActBlue said Paxton’s actions are part of an unlawful retaliation campaign targeting the nation’s leading small-dollar Democratic fundraising platform.

TEXAS AG PAXTON SUES DEM FUNDRAISING PLATFORM ACTBLUE, ALLEGING ‘FRAUDULENT AND FOREIGN DONATIONS’

An election countdown calendar hangs at the ActBlue fundraising office in Somerville, Mass.(Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

“Ken Paxton has spent more than two years using the power of his office to investigate, harass, and sue ActBlue,” Lawrence Oliver, ActBlue’s chief legal officer, said in a statement.

“The timing of Paxton fighting for his political life in his run for U.S. Senate and his use of the Attorney General’s office to attack ActBlue, should not be lost on anyone. He is wasting taxpayer dollars to benefit his political ambitions.

“That is not law enforcement. It is retaliation against constitutionally protected speech and association, and it is exactly what the First Amendment forbids.”

DEM FUNDRAISING GIANT ACTBLUE ROCKED BY ALLEGATIONS IT MISLED CONGRESS ABOUT FOREIGN DONATIONS

ActBlue alleges Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, is investigating its Democrat fundraising platform to target his potential November election opponent James Talarico.(Julio Cortez/AP Photo)

ActBlue also argues selective prosecution, noting Paxton has never investigated WinRed — the Republican fundraising counterpart to ActBlue — alleging in the lawsuit that “Paxton has a history of targeting Democratic-aligned entities.”

“During his tenure as Texas Attorney General, Paxton has signaled an emphasis on enforcement against entities enabling voting and political speech that he perceives as aligned with the Democratic Party,” the lawsuit reads. “He has consistently sought to suppress speech with which he disagrees and hobble his political opponents by abusing the powers of his Office.”

ActBlue cited a New York Times report that Talarico “had posted strong fundraising numbers for the first quarter of 2026,” in potentially being the nexus for Paxton’s opening his investigation.

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The timing of his investigation shows a political motive, ActBlue’s lawsuit argues. The group says Paxton’s investigators began conducting undercover transactions on ActBlue’s platform Feb. 18, one day after Talarico announced he had raised $2.5 million in 24 hours, including more than $2.2 million through ActBlue.

The lawsuit said Paxton filed his Texas case five days after national reporting described Talarico as a major fundraising threat who had raised more than $36 million through the platform.

The lawsuit marks an escalation in a broader Republican-backed campaign targeting ActBlue and other online fundraising platforms. President Donald Trump last year directed his Department of Justice to investigate the groups, and Paxton has pursued ActBlue through a series of inquiries dating back to December 2023.

‘TIPPING THE SCALES’: HOUSE GOP LEADERS RIP ACTBLUE AFTER DEM FUNDRAISING GIANT HIT WITH SUBPOENA

The issue comes as the Democratic National Committee reportedly carried more than $17.5 million in debt this winter, according to the FEC.

The House Administration, Judiciary and Oversight committees have been investigating ActBlue for more than a year and issued a 2025 report titled “Fraud on ActBlue.”

“ActBlue has engaged in good faith at every turn,” the group wrote in a statement after sending a letter to the committees last week before filing the Paxton lawsuit.

TOP HOUSE COMMITTEES ACCUSE DEM FUNDRAISING GIANT OF FACILITATING ‘BAD ACTORS’ IN BOMBSHELL DOJ LETTER

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, Committee on House Administration Chairman Bryan Steil and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan are leading investigations into ActBlue.(AP)

“We are asking the Committees to do the same: engage with us directly before sending accusatory public correspondence, and answer unresolved questions about the relationship between their oversight work and a DOJ investigation ordered by a President who has made no secret of his hostility towards ActBlue.

“We see what this is,” the statement added. “And we’re going to keep showing up, keep correcting the record — because that’s what transparency actually looks like. Not as a talking point. As a practice.”

Paxton’s Texas lawsuit, filed April 20, seeks financial penalties and asks a state court to stop ActBlue from allowing donations through gift cards and prepaid debit cards. Paxton alleged those payment methods could obscure a donor’s identity and enable illegal contributions, including from foreign nationals. His suit also claimed ActBlue continued to process gift card donations after saying in 2024 that it would stop doing so.

DEMOCRAT PLATFORM ACTBLUE SUBPOENAED BY HOUSE COMMITTEE AMID CONCERNS FOREIGN DONORS EXPLOITED SECURITY FLAWS

ActBlue denied the allegations.

“This is a thinly veiled attempt to distract from Ken Paxton’s numerous legal and ethical issues ahead of next month’s runoff,” ActBlue spokeswoman De’Andra Roberts-LaBoo told Fox News in an April 20 statement via email. “If he and his Republican allies actually cared about donor fraud, they would work to strengthen security standards across the board, including within their own operations, rather than targeting ActBlue.

“Our platform has done more than any other, regardless of party,to prevent improper donations and protect donors. Full stop.”

SCOOP: DEM FUNDRAISING GIANT ACTBLUE HIT WITH SUBPOENA BY TOP HOUSE COMMITTEES

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Investigators from Paxton’s office attempted three times to use an American Express gift card on ActBlue’s platform, and all three attempts were rejected by the platform’s automated fraud-prevention tools, according to the complaint.

ActBlue said Paxton nevertheless filed a lawsuit accusing the group of having “secretly resumed” accepting gift cards and failed to disclose the failed test transactions to the Texas court, calling the allegations “false and inflammatory.”

“Paxton’s decision to use his government office to target ActBlue with legal sanctions as retribution for its protected speech and political association is an affront to the Constitution and must not be tolerated,” ActBlue’s lawyers wrote in the federal lawsuit.

Since its founding in 2004, ActBlue said it has helped raise $19 billion for Democratic campaigns and progressive organizations, including more than $568 million in the first quarter of 2026, acting as a conduit for individual donors.

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The lawsuit asks a federal judge to declare Paxton’s investigation and Texas civil case unconstitutional violations of ActBlue’s First and 14th Amendment rights and to bar him from continuing to pursue them.

Reuters contributed to this report.

Eric Mack is a writer for Fox News Digital covering breaking news.

扎波罗热核电站外部辐射控制实验室遭无人机袭击

2026年5月3日 22:07 / 联合早报

国际原子能机构总干事格罗西重申，任何发生在核设施附近的袭击都可能构成核安全风险。 （法新社）

扎波罗热核电站星期天向国际原子能机构通报称，一架无人机袭击了核电站外部辐射监测实验室。

路透社报道，国际原子能机构（IAEA）星期天（5月3日）说，目前未接获人员伤亡报告，且尚不清楚有关实验室是否受损。这个实验室位于核电站周边范围之外。

国际原子能机构总干事格罗西说，现场的IAEA团队已要求进入实验室进行调查，并重申任何发生在核设施附近的袭击都可能构成核安全风险。

扎波罗热核电站是欧洲最大核电站，靠近乌克兰南部战线，2022年起被俄军占领。四年战争期间，俄乌多次指责对方发动袭击，称此举将引发核灾难。

俄罗斯方面星期天声称，乌克兰军队发动了这次的无人机袭击，但表明扎波罗热核电站继续正常运行。

国际原子能机构总干事格罗西重申，任何发生在核设施附近的袭击都可能构成核安全风险。 （法新社）

扎波罗热核电站星期天向国际原子能机构通报称，一架无人机袭击了核电站外部辐射监测实验室。

路透社报道，国际原子能机构（IAEA）星期天（5月3日）说，目前未接获人员伤亡报告，且尚不清楚有关实验室是否受损。这个实验室位于核电站周边范围之外。

国际原子能机构总干事格罗西说，现场的IAEA团队已要求进入实验室进行调查，并重申任何发生在核设施附近的袭击都可能构成核安全风险。

扎波罗热核电站是欧洲最大核电站，靠近乌克兰南部战线，2022年起被俄军占领。四年战争期间，俄乌多次指责对方发动袭击，称此举将引发核灾难。

俄罗斯方面星期天声称，乌克兰军队发动了这次的无人机袭击，但表明扎波罗热核电站继续正常运行。

By Jake Tapper, CNN

Published 11:19 AM EDT, Sun May 3, 2026

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（伦敦彭博讯）受全球经济动荡、人工智能（AI）迅速发展以及就业竞争加剧的多重影响下，欧美越来越多年轻人选择攻读硕士学位，希望在数十年来最严峻的就业市场中突围而出。

22岁的政治系学生韦斯顿-爱德华兹因为没能获得一家历史旅游公司的实习机会，而决定继续攻读政治传播硕士。他说：“如果连实习机会都落空了，那我毕业后找到工作的希望就很渺茫，我显然需要一份更出色的履历。”

韦斯顿-爱德华兹只是欧美成千上万选择继续深造的年轻人中的一员。官方数据显示，今年以来，美国法学院申请人数较过去四年平均水平激增32%。

欧洲去年有四分之三的商科硕士项目申请人数超过前一年。英国授课型研究生课程的收生人数在经历多年下滑后，2024-25学年的入学人数增长了8%。

那些能为学生打开通往金融业等传统优势行业大门的实用型学位尤其受欢迎，伦敦贝叶斯商学院（The Bayes Business School）的研究生申请人数在2025-26学年增长近10%，增速较往年加快。

不过，对许多学生来说，他们申请研究生课程的关键在于这是否有助于就业，凸显了许多学生并非出于学术兴趣而继续深造的现象。

韦斯顿-爱德华兹说：“就业能力绝对是首要因素。现在很多人读硕士，更多是因为就业市场的状况，而非个人对提升学术水平的渴望。”

欧美国家的就业市场严峻，图为美国北卡罗来纳州4月16日举行的一个执业展，吸引不少人前去觅职。 （彭博社）

（伦敦彭博讯）受全球经济动荡、人工智能（AI）迅速发展以及就业竞争加剧的多重影响下，欧美越来越多年轻人选择攻读硕士学位，希望在数十年来最严峻的就业市场中突围而出。

22岁的政治系学生韦斯顿-爱德华兹因为没能获得一家历史旅游公司的实习机会，而决定继续攻读政治传播硕士。他说：“如果连实习机会都落空了，那我毕业后找到工作的希望就很渺茫，我显然需要一份更出色的履历。”

韦斯顿-爱德华兹只是欧美成千上万选择继续深造的年轻人中的一员。官方数据显示，今年以来，美国法学院申请人数较过去四年平均水平激增32%。

欧洲去年有四分之三的商科硕士项目申请人数超过前一年。英国授课型研究生课程的收生人数在经历多年下滑后，2024-25学年的入学人数增长了8%。

那些能为学生打开通往金融业等传统优势行业大门的实用型学位尤其受欢迎，伦敦贝叶斯商学院（The Bayes Business School）的研究生申请人数在2025-26学年增长近10%，增速较往年加快。

不过，对许多学生来说，他们申请研究生课程的关键在于这是否有助于就业，凸显了许多学生并非出于学术兴趣而继续深造的现象。

韦斯顿-爱德华兹说：“就业能力绝对是首要因素。现在很多人读硕士，更多是因为就业市场的状况，而非个人对提升学术水平的渴望。”

US Attorney Pirro says officer was shot during White House correspondents’ dinner by suspect’s gun

2026-05-03 1:25 PM UTC / Reuters

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Police K-9 Unit officers stand with other law enforcement personnel at the venue following a shooting incident during the annual White House Correspondents’ Association dinner, in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 25, 2026. REUTERS/Ken Cedeno/File Photo

May 3 (Reuters) – U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said on Sunday that the government ​has evidence that a federal agent was shot ‌by the suspect in custody during an alleged attempt to assassinate President Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner ​last weekend.

“We now can establish that a pellet ​that came from the buckshot from the defendant’s ⁠Mossberg pump-action shotgun was intertwined with the fiber ​of the vest of the Secret Service officer,” Pirro ​said during an appearance on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

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“It is definitively his bullet,” Pirro said.

Cole Tomas Allen is accused of storming a ​security checkpoint and firing a shotgun in the ​foyer leading to the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on April 25. ‌Allen ⁠is charged with attempted assassination, discharging a firearm during a crime of violence and illegally transporting guns and ammunition across state lines. He has not yet entered ​a plea.

Acting U.S. ​Attorney General ⁠Todd Blanche said on Sunday there could be more charges filed as the investigation ​continues.

“I expect in the next week or ​so, ⁠there will be more information coming out. Obviously, assuming the investigation moves forward, there will be an indictment forthcoming. ⁠And ​all that is typical of what ​happens,” Blanche said on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

Reporting by Michael S. Derby ​and Doina Chiacu; editing by Scott Malone and Nia Williams

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Examining NATO: Inside the ‘commitment gap’ as US carries alliance deterrence

May 3, 2026 10:00am EDT / Fox News

Retired Lt Gen Keith Kellogg told Trump the alliance needs ‘a new defensive alignment with Europe’ as budgets fail to match promises

By Efrat Lachter Fox News

This is part one of a series examining the challenges confronting the NATO alliance.

As President Donald Trump ramps up pressure on NATO allies to increase defense spending — and orders the withdrawal of 5,000 U.S. troops from Germany over the next six to 12 months — a deeper issue is coming into focus: even as allied budgets rise, NATO still depends heavily on American military power to function.

NATO’s imbalance is not theoretical — and it is not new, retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg told Fox News Digital, “I told the president… maybe you ought to talk about a tiered relationship with NATO,” Kellogg described conversations with Trump in his first term about the alliance’s future. “…we need to develop a new, for lack of a better term, a new NATO a new defensive alignment with Europe.”

Kellogg, who served as a senior national security official during Trump’s first term, said the alliance has expanded politically but not militarily — creating what he sees as a growing gap between commitments and real capability.

NATO CHIEF SIGNALS ALLIES MAY ACT ON HORMUZ, WARNS OF ‘UNHEALTHY CODEPENDENCE’ ON US

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, President Donald Trump and Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer pose during the NATO Heads of State and Government summit in The Hague, Netherlands, on June 25, 2025.(Ben Stansall/Pool/Reuters)

“You started with 12, and you went to 32, and in the process, I think you diluted the impact,” he argued, calling today’s NATO “a very bloated architecture.”

“They haven’t put the money into defense. Their defense industry and defense forces have atrophied. When you look at the Brits right now, they could barely deploy forces: they have two aircraft carriers, both under maintenance. Their brigades are like one out of six that work. And you just look at the capability, it’s just not there. So I think we need to realize that and say, well, we need something different,” Kellogg, who is the co-chair of the Center for American Security at the America First Foreign Policy Institute, told Fox News Digital.

But not everyone agrees the alliance is losing relevance.

“It has never been more relevant,” said John R. Deni, a research professor at the U.S. Army War College, who says NATO remains central to U.S. national security.

“The reason for that is twofold,” he said. “One, it’s our comparative advantage versus the Chinese and the Russians… they don’t have anything like this.”

“And the second reason… NATO underwrites the security and stability of our most important trade and investment relationship,” he added, referring to economic ties between North America and Europe.

NATO ALLIES CLASH AFTER RUSSIAN JETS BREACH AIRSPACE, TESTING ALLIANCE RESOLVE

NATO chiefs of defense hold a meeting in Brussels on Aug. 20, 2025, with screens displaying allied leaders joining remotely to discuss Ukraine.(Fox News)

Dependence: Design or Weakness?

By around 2010, the United States accounted for roughly 65% to 70% of NATO defense spending, according to analysis provided by Barak Seener from the Henry Jackson Society, a London-based think tank.

“They’ve always been dependent on the U.S.,” Kellogg said of the European allies.

“The allies overall rely upon one another for deterrence and defense by design,” Deni said, explaining that alliances exist to “pool their resources” and “aggregate their individual strengths.”

Deni pointed to ground forces as a clear example of what the U.S. gains from the alliance, noting that “there are far more allied mechanized infantry forces on the ground than there are Americans.”

Still, he acknowledged that reliance has at times gone too far.

“In the past… it was fair to say that the European allies were overly reliant upon the Americans for conventional defense,” he said, pointing to the 2000s.

That, he said, was partly driven by U.S. priorities — as Washington pushed European allies to focus on wars in Afghanistan and Iraq rather than territorial defense.

A Polish Army soldier sits in a tank as a NATO flag flies behind during the NATO Noble Jump VJTF exercises on June 18, 2015, in Zagan, Poland.(Sean Gallup/Getty Images)

Seener describes NATO as “formally collective, but functionally asymmetric,” with the U.S. providing a disproportionate share of “high-end capabilities.”

That asymmetry is most visible in nuclear deterrence.

Seener said the U.S. provides the overwhelming majority of NATO’s nuclear arsenal — including intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-launched systems and strategic bombers — meaning deterrence ultimately relies on the assumption of U.S. retaliation.

A NATO official told Fox News Digital that, “The U.S. nuclear deterrent cannot be replaced, but it is clear that Europe needs to step up. There’s no question. There needs to be a better balance when it comes to our defense and security. Both because we see the vital role the U.S. plays around the world and the resources that it demands, and also because it is only fair.”

“The good news,” the official added, “is that the Allies are doing exactly that. They are stepping up, working together — and with the U.S. — to ensure we collectively have what we need to deter and defend one billion people living across the Euro-Atlantic area.”

NATO LAUNCHES ARCTIC SECURITY PUSH AS TRUMP EYES GREENLAND TAKEOVER

Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopters of the U.S. Army 12th Combat Aviation Brigade fly over a Lithuanian Vilkas infantry fighting vehicle during the Allied Spirit 25 military exercise near Hohenfels, Germany, on March 12, 2025.

The Systems NATO Cannot Replace

Beyond nuclear weapons, the dependence runs through the alliance’s operational backbone.

Seener pointed to U.S.-provided intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance — as well as logistics and command systems — as essential to NATO operations.

“Without U.S. intelligence and surveillance, NATO loses situational awareness and early warning capabilities,” Seener said, adding, “So that means that Russia, for example, can attack Europe. And theoretically, if there’s no NATO and the U.S. is not involved, Europe would not be aware, or it would take it too long to be able to defend itself.”

Kellogg also says that much of Europe’s military capability falls short of top-tier systems.

“For the most part, their equipment, if you had to grade it A, B, C, D, E, F, they’re kind of like B players or C players,” he said. “It’s not the first line of work.”

He pointed to air and missile defense as a key gap, noting that while European countries rely on U.S.-made systems such as Patriot and THAAD, “they don’t have a system that’s comparable.”

Kellogg attributed that to years of underinvestment, saying European defense industries “have atrophied,” adding that the United States is also now “relearning that as well.”

TRUMP AFFIRMS US ‘WILL ALWAYS BE THERE FOR NATO,’ WHILE EXPRESSING DOUBTS ABOUT ALLIANCE

President Donald Trump and Poland’s President Andrzej Duda talk during a working lunch at the NATO leaders summit in Watford, Britain, on Dec. 4, 2019.(Kevin Lamarque/Reuters)

Deni said the picture today is more mixed.

“Alliance defense spending has been up… and has spiked far more after 2022,” he said, pointing to Russia’s invasion of Crimea in 2014 as a turning point.

But he cautioned that capability gains take time, noting that many improvements are still years away from full deployment.

Deni pointed to recent European purchases of U.S. systems as evidence of growing capability, noting that countries including Poland, Romania, Norway and Denmark are acquiring the F-35 fighter jet from the U.S.

“You can’t build an F-35 overnight,” he said, adding that many of these improvements will take years to fully materialize.

A NATO official told Fox News Digital the alliance “needs to move further and faster” to meet growing threats, pointing to new capability targets agreed by defense ministers in June 2025.

Keith Kellogg speaks during the Warsaw Security Forum on Sept. 30, 2025, in Poland.(Marek Antoni Iwanczuk/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

The official said priorities include air and missile defense, long-range weapons, logistics and large land forces, noting that while details remain classified, plans call for a fivefold increase in air and missile defense, “thousands more” armored vehicles and tanks, and “millions more” artillery shells. NATO also aims to double key enabling capabilities such as logistics, transportation and medical support.

The official added that allies are increasing investments in warships, aircraft, drones, long-range missiles, as well as space and cyber capabilities, while boosting readiness and modernizing command and control.

“These targets are now included in national plans,” the official said, adding that allies must demonstrate how they will meet them through sustained defense spending and capability development.

The NATO official also noted that European allies lead multinational forces across Central and Eastern Europe, while the U.S. and Canada serve as framework nations in Poland and Latvia, alongside ongoing air policing missions and NATO’s KFOR operation in Kosovo.

A Swedish Air Force JAS 39 Gripen fighter aircraft takes off from southern Sweden on April 2, 2011.(AP Photo/Scanpix/Patric Soderstrom, File)

What happens if the U.S. is stretched?

Kellogg’s warning is direct: NATO’s deterrence depends on U.S. presence.

“The one you always have to worry about… is Russia,” Kellogg, who was Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine and Russia in 2025, said.

If U.S. forces are tied down elsewhere, NATO could face serious strain — particularly in areas like intelligence and logistics.

For Kellogg, the danger is delay. “We won’t know until it happens,” he said. “And then you won’t be able to respond to it.”

Deni, however, said the alliance remains a strategic asset — not a liability.

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A NATO military force stands guard outside the World Forum in The Hague ahead of the two-day NATO summit on June 22, 2025.(Remko de Waal/ANP/AFP)

The question, he suggests, is not whether NATO still works. It is whether allies can adapt fast enough to keep it working.

Efrat Lachter is a foreign correspondent for Fox News Digital covering international affairs and the United Nations. Follow her on X @efratlachter. Stories can be sent to efrat.lachter@fox.com.

奥地利北部营地“战争遗物”爆炸 致五名儿童受伤

2026年5月3日 22:45 / 联合早报

奥地利警方发声明说，目前正在调查“战争遗物”是如何出现在篝火区域下方的。 （示意图 / Pexels）

奥地利北部营地篝火下的“战争遗物”爆炸，导致五名年龄介于10至14岁的儿童受伤。

路透社报道，奥地利警方星期天（5月3日）说，这起事件发生在星期六（2日）晚上，位于上奥地利州弗赖施塔特附近的圣奥斯瓦尔德村（St Oswald bei Freistadt）。这个地区经常有青少年团体露营，受伤儿童则是来自上奥地利州其他地区的团体。

警方声明指出，爆炸发生后，警方检查了相邻的一个火坑，发现了另一个含有爆炸物的物体，同样被描述为“战争遗物”，随后召来了拆弹小组进行处理。

声明说：“目前正在调查这些战争遗物是如何出现在篝火区域下方的。”

警方说，目前尚不清楚这些儿童的伤势严重程度，他们已被送往附近林茨市的一家儿童医院。

虽然奥地利仍不时发现二战时期的炸弹，尤其是在建筑施工挖掘过程中，但像星期六这样的事故实属罕见。