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The story
Mortsel was the scene for one of the major collateral damage tragedies of World War II. On 5 April 1943, the Minerva car factory, then used to repair Luftwaffe planes, was the target of a bombing raid by the USAAF. Most bombs missed the target and hit a residential area instead, resulting in the deaths of 936 civilians, including 209 children, exceeding the civilian death toll of the Guernica raid which modern estimates put at 400.
The last V2 launched against Antwerp also fell in Mortsel, killing 27 people, on 27 March 1945.
From Wikipedia’s article on Mortsel, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5