Seven dead after scrap metal workers cut open WWII bomb in Bangkok

[Ah Pook]

Oof.

http://www.smh.com.au/world/seven-de...403-zqpwf.html

Bangkok: At least seven people died and 19 others have been injured when a massive World War II bomb exploded at a scrap metal warehouse in Bangkok as workers tried to cut it open, officials say.


The 225-kilogram shell was found at a construction site by builders who then sold it to a suburban scrap metal merchant believing the bomb had been defused.


"The workers at the warehouse thought the bomb was no longer active so they used a metal cutter to cut into it causing the explosion," said local police commander Virasak Foythong, adding the ordnance was probably left over from the war era.
Picking up the pieces: Thai firefighters fight the blaze. Photo: AP

"Seven are now confirmed dead and 19 injured," the city's Erawan emergency centre said, updating the toll. It reported that five people were killed at the scene.


Confirming the number of deaths, a police explosives expert said the blast created a large crater and damaged homes within a 500-metre radius.


"It was (a) 500 pound bomb dropped from the air during World War II," Colonel Kamthorn Ouicharoen, of the police bomb disposal unit, said after visiting the scene on Wednesday.
Devastation: The metal scrap shop. Photo: AP

Television footage showed debris and twisted metal at the destroyed workshop as thick smoke choked the sky, while local reports said dozens of nearby homes were also damaged by the blast.

The allies conducted bombing raids on the Thai capital in retaliation for the kingdom joining the Japanese war effort in Southeast Asia.

[buffalobo]

Now we will feel bad as a nation and send them another 20 billion in aid.

Lobbed from my electronic ball and chain.

[rbeau30]

Now we will feel bad as a nation and send them another 20 billion in aid.

Lobbed from my electronic ball and chain.

They were the ones that joined the wrong side LOL. I think every nation needs a little 'incident' from time to time to help remind them of the times where that particular nation did something stupid.

[clodhopper]

Wow. That blows.

[rbeau30]

You know what the last thing that went through their mind was?










































Thier ass.


Too soon?

[trlcavscout]

Holy crap! Someone brings you that beast and tells you its not live so you just start cutting it up? I feel bad for the people but someone screwed up.

[rbeau30]

Holy crap! Someone brings you that beast and tells you its not live so you just start cutting it up? I feel bad for the people but someone screwed up.

LOL! "Dude, it's cool man.", "no no no, it's perfectly safe it only looks like a huge friggin bomb.", "Here, this torch will work good."

[trlcavscout]

LOL! "Dude, it's cool man.", "no no no, it's perfectly safe it inly looks like a huge friggin bomb."

I wonder if he had time to shit himself? Haha

[Mtn.man]

and you guys thought obama supporters were dumb

[KS63]

Sad that people were killed, but Holy Fook, what a dumbass!