By IANS/EFE,
Madrid : Five military personnel were killed and three were wounded in an accidental explosion at a base outside the Spanish capital, the defence ministry said.
The blast occurred Thursday at the engineers school in the Madrid suburb of Hoyo de Manzanares during a bomb-defusing exercise.
Officials said three of the dead were army soldiers and two were marines.
Defence Minister Carme Chacon rushed to the base after the accident, officials said.
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