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Boy Killed by Old Bomb


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Buth Reaksmey Kongkea

A 12-year-old boy was killed in Battambang province’s Bavel district on Saturday, after an abandoned mortar shell he was playing with exploded, police officials said. Theang Dia, a primary school student from Ampil village, in Bavel district’s Ampil Bramdeum commune, found the unexploded bomb on Saturday after leaving home to pick fruit at about 10 am.

Bavel district police Lt-Colonel Eam Tith said the boy found the unexploded ordinance under a tree. Mr. Tith said it was an 82 millimeter mortar shell and that the boy brought it back to play with and threw it on ground. The shell exploded, killing the boy instantly.

read more: http://www.khmertimeskh.com/news/21675/boy-killed-by-old-bomb/

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