Buy soil, get ammunition for free

Buy soil, get ammunition for free

Authorities point to a 105mm round found at the house of Puangma Wongsriya in Nakae district in Nakhon Phanom on Thursday. (Photo by Pattanapong Sripiachai)
Authorities point to a 105mm round found at the house of Puangma Wongsriya in Nakae district in Nakhon Phanom on Thursday. (Photo by Pattanapong Sripiachai)

NAKHON PHANOM - Puangma Wongsriya is in shock after finding an ammunition round at her house.

Mrs Puangma, 52, told Pol Capt Payung Saenkasa, a deputy chief of Nong Bor police station, that she had

A 105mm round found in soil delivered to the house of Puangma Wongsriya. (Photo from Pattanapong Sripiachai)

ordered a truckload of soil for her property in Na Kae district. A truck made a delivery on Thursday and decided to alert a kaman of tambon Nong Bor when she noticed an unwanted object in the pile.

Police, including bomb disposal experts, and army soldiers went to her house after receiving the report from the kamnan and took the round away to destroy it.

Pol Capt Payung said the ammunition was a 105mm round believed to be a leftover from the cold war days in the district.

Na Kae was one of several districts in Nakhon Phanom that were used as operations bases by the Communist Party of Thailand when it was fighting the government. It ended its armed operations in the 1980s.


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