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Four teens injured after igniting shell

| Publication date 20 May 2011 | 08:00 ICT

Four teens injured after igniting shell

Four teenagers were slightly injured in Battambang province’s Mong Russey district after discovering a Khmer-Rouge era shell in a field and burning it. The boys – all aged 13 or 14 – were taken to hospital after the shell exploded. District police chief Kit Heang said: “It was luck that the pieces of shell did not get in their eyes.”

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