Child Dies Playing with Grenade at Army Base
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Child Dies Playing with Grenade at Army Base
Kampong Speu, Cambodia news: It has been reported that at 3:30 pm, on August 26, 2018, a group of four young boys were playing together when they discovered a M79 grenade, and one of them picked it up.
The grenade exploded killing a 10 year old boy, and seriously injuring the other three boys who were taken to Kampong Speu hospital.
The accident occurred at the site of the ACO army base in Tang Sia commune, Phnom Sruoch district, Kampong Speu province.
According to Yas Dina, a military base commander at Phnom Sruoch district, the four victims have been identified as:
1. Heng male, 10 years old
2, Soun Roth, male, 12
3, Yem Pur, male, 9,
4, Yem Mok, male, 6 years old.
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The grenade exploded killing a 10 year old boy, and seriously injuring the other three boys who were taken to Kampong Speu hospital.
The accident occurred at the site of the ACO army base in Tang Sia commune, Phnom Sruoch district, Kampong Speu province.
According to Yas Dina, a military base commander at Phnom Sruoch district, the four victims have been identified as:
1. Heng male, 10 years old
2, Soun Roth, male, 12
3, Yem Pur, male, 9,
4, Yem Mok, male, 6 years old.
RIP
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Re: Child Dies Playing with Grenade at Army Base
So they just let random kids roam the range? The mind boggles.
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Re: Child Dies Playing with Grenade at Army Base
This is the 3rd world, man. Adios logic!cptrelentless wrote: ↑Mon Aug 27, 2018 4:44 pm So they just let random kids roam the range? The mind boggles.
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Update: A second child has died of his injuries in hospital.
Two boys killed after UXO explosion
August 28, 2018
Two boys died and two others were hurt on Sunday after they accidentally detonated an unexploded M79 shell on a mountain in Kampong Speu province’s Phnom Sruoch district, police said yesterday.
District police chief Say Bunthon said yesterday that the boys were herding cows on the mountain when they came across the shell and hit it with a rock to remove the shell head as a souvenir.
“There are several unexploded ordnances scattered in the area but no one knows exactly where,” Mr Bunthon said. “The four boys found the M79 shell and wanted to use its head to attach to a cow collar.”
“One of them hit it with a rock and it exploded, instantly killing one of them and injuring the others,” he added. Provincial police identified one dead boy as Ngol Taingheng, 10, who was killed instantly. The other dead boy, Soun Rath, 12, died after being sent to the provincial hospital.
Mr Bunthon said another boy Yem Svet, nine, was seriously injured and sent to hospital while the fourth boy Yem Khmao, six, only suffered minor injuries.
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50527298/t ... explosion/
Two boys killed after UXO explosion
August 28, 2018
Two boys died and two others were hurt on Sunday after they accidentally detonated an unexploded M79 shell on a mountain in Kampong Speu province’s Phnom Sruoch district, police said yesterday.
District police chief Say Bunthon said yesterday that the boys were herding cows on the mountain when they came across the shell and hit it with a rock to remove the shell head as a souvenir.
“There are several unexploded ordnances scattered in the area but no one knows exactly where,” Mr Bunthon said. “The four boys found the M79 shell and wanted to use its head to attach to a cow collar.”
“One of them hit it with a rock and it exploded, instantly killing one of them and injuring the others,” he added. Provincial police identified one dead boy as Ngol Taingheng, 10, who was killed instantly. The other dead boy, Soun Rath, 12, died after being sent to the provincial hospital.
Mr Bunthon said another boy Yem Svet, nine, was seriously injured and sent to hospital while the fourth boy Yem Khmao, six, only suffered minor injuries.
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50527298/t ... explosion/
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Re: Child Dies Playing with Grenade at Army Base
That's terrible. And even more terrible that 10 and 12 year old kids don't know better than to play with UXOs they find lying about. Hopefully, there will be some more talks in schools and from parents to educate kids not to touch this sort of stuff.
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It sounds like they were on a mountain, maybe near a military base?cptrelentless wrote: ↑Mon Aug 27, 2018 4:44 pm So they just let random kids roam the range? The mind boggles.
It's common here for soldier's wives and kids to stay at barracks or even on the frontline when there's a war on.
Tea Kim Heang Siem Reap 1974 - Soldier's kid carrying his rifle.
Theon Veasna Prek Pnou 1975 - Another soldier's kid.
M79s aren't part of the army inventory here anymore either, so it could be an old grenade that had been there for 20-40 years, unless it's near one of those tourist ranges?
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I agree, especially if they live in an area where there's an army base (it's likely there has been one there for decades) and are maybe from army families. However kids do stupid stuff, they probably thought it would just make a funny popping noise or something.Anchor Moy wrote: ↑Tue Aug 28, 2018 5:59 pm That's terrible. And even more terrible that 10 and 12 year old kids don't know better than to play with UXOs they find lying about. Hopefully, there will be some more talks in schools and from parents to educate kids not to touch this sort of stuff.
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Re: Child Dies Playing with Grenade at Army Base
fuck sake thats tradgic! so young
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