The planned detonation of a silo in southern Denmark went spectacularly wrong on Friday, April 6, when the silo fell in the opposite direction intended.
The blast had been prepared for six months and an investigation has begun into what went wrong.
Danish newspaper BT said the preparations for the explosion seemed to be correct, citing the Danish Explosives Association.
“We had not imagined it would be so bad,” Kenneth Wegge, who led the silo’s explosion, told the station. “We still do not know what went wrong. We are currently investigating.”
“I will put my head on the block. We have prepared half a year for this,” he added.
Vordingborg’s mayor, Mikael Smed, told the Ritzau news agency that dust and glass would need to be cleared up from the damaged area and a structural assessment of the damaged building carried out.
The Vordingborg local government said via Facebook that volunteer firefighters responded to the situation and worked throughout the night to secure the damaged building.
Jane Grønbech Poulsen, who works at the cultural center, said she was shocked when she saw her office damaged by the silo.
“I did not even think of my own eyes. It was incomprehensible. I saw it. At first, I was a little shocked. And then I ran to check out people,” she said.
Poulsen said the center will re-open in about a week.
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