1kg bomb found in fruit basket
- Published: 20 Sep 2012 at 16.17
- Online news:
NARATHIWAT – Police found a one kilogramme bomb in a fruit basket at a local vendor’s house in Baan Bricha in Rusoe district on Thursday, reports said.
Police, rescue crews and soldiers rushed to the scene after a local resident tipped them off about a suspicious looking object he believed to be a bomb.
The bomb had been assembled in an iron box, with a detonator triggered by a mobile phone, and hidden in a fruit basket. They shut down phone signals in the area and defused the bomb. It took them about 20 minutes.
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