- Title: GERMANY: EAST BERLIN YOUTH CRASHES BORDER WALL IN ARMOURED CAR
- Date: 18th April 1963
- Summary: 1. GV HOLE IN WALL. 0.05 2. SV DITTO. 0.08 3. SCU.TILT UP...BRICKS & MORTAR FROM WALL UP TO BARBED WIRE. 0.18 4. SCU WEST GERMAN GUARDS EXAMINING WALL. 0.21 5. SLV THROUGH BARBED WIRE EAST GERMAN GUARD. 0.26 6. SLV PHOTOGRAPHER POINTING CAMERA OVER WALL. 0.30 7. GV WATER HOSED AT CAMERAMAN. 0.38 8. SV WEST GERMAN GUARDS. 0.41 9. SCU BARBED WIRE ON WALL. 0.45 Initials IT/S/PB DD/S/MGT/GH Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
- Embargoed: 3rd May 1963 13:00
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- Location: BERLIN (W), GERMANY (W)
- Country: Germany
- Reuters ID: LVA42CH0GEYZ2BE8N418KBMJN1X7
- Story Text: AN EAST BERLIN MOTOR MECHANIC DRIVING AN ARMOURED CAR LAST NIGHT (WEDNESDAY) TRIED TO CRASH THROUGH THE BORDER WALL INTO THE WESTERN SECTOR.WHEN THE VEHICLE STUCK IN THE HOLE IT MADE, THE 19-YEAR-OLD DRIVER LEAPT OUT UNDER GUNFIRE FROM EAST GERMAN GUARDS AND SCRAMBLED ACROSS THE BARBED WIRE ENTANGLEMENTS TOPPING THE WALL.
HIT IN THE RIBS AND HAND, THE YOUTH WAS DRAGGED DOWN BY TWO WEST BERLINERS AND RUSHED TO HOSPITAL.HE SAID HE HAD WORKED AS A MECHANIC IN A RUSSIAN MILITARY DEPOT.
A LARGE FORCE OF EAST BERLIN POLICE SEALED OFF THE AREA AROUND THE HOLE AND, AFTER REMOVING THE ARMOURED CAR, COVERED THE GAP WITH WOODEN PLANKS.SPECTATORS AND CAMERAMEN WHO CROWDED ROUND ON THE WESTERN SIDE OF THE WALL WERE DISPERSED BY WATER CANNONS FIRED BY THE EAST GERMANY GUARDS.
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