Ping pong bomb thrown into school
published : 11 Jan 2022 at 11:18
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Sutthiwit Chayutworakan
Police are looking for a group of five teenagers after one of them was seen throwing a ping pong bomb into the compound of a school in Phra Pradaeng district on Monday.
Nobody was hurt in the explosion.
A teacher at Wat Yothinpradit School said that at about 12.45pm he heard the sound of an explosion.
He and a janitor ran out of the school to look for the cause of the noise.
People at shops in front of the school said a ping pong bomb had been thrown into the school compound by a group of five teenagers who rode two motorcycles past the school entrance.
One of the teenagers jumped off, threw a ping pong bomb into the school, and then jumped onto the other motorbike. All then rode away.
The bomb went off, but nobody was hurt. Schoolchildren were playing some distance from the spot.
Police are examining the CCTV footage.
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Vocabulary
- cause: the person or thing that makes something happen - สาเหตุ
- CCTV footage: video from a CCTV camera - ภาพหรือหนังในเทปวิดีโอจากกล้องวงจรปิดเพื่อรักษาการความปลอดภัย
- compound: an area enclosed by a fence or wall, usually in which people work or live - บริเวณ
- examine: to look at somebody/something closely, to see if there is anything wrong or to find the cause of a problem - ตรวจ
- explosion (noun): the sudden violent bursting and loud noise of something such as a bomb exploding; the act of deliberately causing something to explode - การระเบิด
- janitor: someone whose job is to take care of a public building such as a hospital or school - ภารโรง