The Greatest Escape: Heart-Stopping Video Shows British Soldiers Sprinting For Their Lives After Attempt To Blow Up Afghan Bomb Factory Goes Catastrophically Wrong -- Daily Mail
* Pair are seen fleeing from mud building in Helmand Province
* Building explodes just seconds after they run through door
* Both are enveloped in huge cloud of dust and smoke...
* But emerge unscathed to relief of their comrades
It was the narrowest - and most terrifying - of escapes.
In footage that could have been plucked straight from Hollywood blockbuster The Hurt Locker, two British soldiers are seen sprinting for their lives after a detonation in an Afghan bomb factory went spectacularly wrong.
It was meant to be a controlled explosion but instead, for reasons that are unclear, the men are left with a fraction of a second to get clear before the one-storey mud building, in Helmand Province, is blown to smithereens.
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My Comment: It is clear that they were running for their lives.
