Commemoration of the death of four Belgian military deminers who died in Genk on April 27, 1942.

On 27 April 1942, five deminers from Liège and their driver were asked to defuse an allied bomb. It was lying at the corner flag of the B-square of the current Atlas College. When the six arrived on site, the bomb was ready to be defused. But since that did not go according to plan, Sergeant Massart was asked to get additional tools in the truck. Just as he was standing behind the vehicle, the bomb exploded, which eventually cost the lives of the four other mine clearers.

The military deminers who were involved in the failed neutralization of an allied bomb on the Bret in Genk on April 27, 1942. From left to right: Joseph Massart, Walthère Leroy (+), Laurent Brauns (+), Victor Colson (+) and Joseph Jaunasse (+).