Bomb Explosion along Mekong River; 1 Killed and 9 Injured

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Thbong Khmom, Cambodia News: On January 14, 2019, at 08:30 pm, a 105mm bomb exploded along Mekong river in Prey Touch village, Thbong Khmom district.One man was killed in the explosion and nine were injured.
Witnesses said that a 60-year-old fisherman, Math Sos, found the bomb and it exploded as he was investigating it. A piece of shrapnel hit a 26-year-old man, Van Khea, who died immediately and nine other people were injured including the fisherman.
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1 killed, 9 wounded in war-left artillery shell explosion in eastern Cambodia
Xinhua, January 14, 2019
PHNOM PENH, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) -- A war-left 105mm artillery shell exploded on Monday, killing one man and injuring nine others in eastern Cambodia's Tboung Khmum province, local authorities said.

The unexploded artillery shell, weighing about 20 kg, went off when a fisherman poured boiling lead into it, said Mung Raya, deputy police chief of Tboung Khmum district, where the blast occurred.

"It exploded and its shrapnel killed a 36-year-old man and injured nine others," he told Xinhua, adding that the fisherman got wounded on his legs.

According to Raya, the explosion occurred because the fisherman was trying to convert the artillery shell into a fishing-aided tool.
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The unexploded artillery shell, weighing about 20 kg, went off when a fisherman poured boiling lead into it,
It is shocking that this sort of crap still happens.

Almost like a Monty Python skit in silliness though.
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The unexploded artillery shell, weighing about 20 kg, went off when a fisherman poured boiling lead into it
Even by Cambodian standards this must break some retard record.
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they use the explosives for fishing.
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