It likely looked like a bomb and felt like a bomb, given that he retrieved it from a live-fire artillery range. But that didn’t stop a scavenger from trying to cut it open.
A man lost his arm after trying to open a 60-millimeter mortal shell in Lopburi province in hope of selling it for scrap.
Wicharn Sinma, a 36-year-old Cambodian national, was found with shrapnel injuries to his face in the home he rented and sent to the hospital, according to Thairath.
It wasn’t the only bomb Wicharn had sought to open – when police arrived on the scene, they found a larger, 105-millimeter slug with its explosive materials carefully removed.
Wicharn is expected to survive, and told police he collected the rounds from the live-firing range of a military artillery base.
Photo: Different types of 60-millimeter mortar shells. Wikimedia Commons
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