An Australian man and his British colleague have been killed in a horror bomb blast on the Solomon Islands.
The pair was working for a Norwegian aid agency conducting surveys of unexploded World War II bombs, police said, when the blast occurred in a residential part of Honiara.
The Solomon Islands are a former World War II battleground and the Norwegian Peoples Aid (NPA) is an NGO that aims to locate unexploded bombs.
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Authorities are now working to clear the site of the explosion while investigators try to determine why explosives were present at a block of residential flats.