The Douaumont ossuary is pictured on July 2, 2016 in Douaumont, eastern France. / AFP PHOTO / JEAN-CHRISTOPHE VERHAEGEN
METZ, France: A French World War I memorial has been removed from Pokémon Go following complaints about players gathering to do battle at a site containing the remains of 130,000 soldiers, the site’s management said.
The Douaumont ossuary in northeast France contains the remains of some of the more than 300,000 French and German soldiers who died in the Battle of Verdun, one of the bloodiest of the 1914-18 conflict.
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