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German army drafts 4-week-old baby

The German army sent a draft notice to a four-week-old baby named Lucio, ordering him to report for duty within the next 10 days, Reuters reports. A spokesman for the army said the notice had been sent erroneously because a clerk typed in the wrong date of birth for the boy from Aubstadt, in southern Germany.

The spokesman said: “It was an accident. Somebody entered the wrong number into a computer. There was no harm done. We realised the error the same day and called up the family to tell them to throw the notice away when it arrived.”

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .