{"id":77925,"date":"2014-04-04T00:18:46","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T20:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/?p=77925"},"modified":"2014-04-04T00:18:46","modified_gmt":"2014-04-03T20:18:46","slug":"seven-die-in-bangkok-explosion-after-scrap-metal-dealers-try-to-dismantle-wwii-bomb-with-a-blowtorch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=77925","title":{"rendered":"Seven die in Bangkok explosion after scrap metal dealers try to dismantle WWII bomb with a BLOWTORCH"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Second-World-War-bomb-Bangkok.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-77922\" alt=\"\u0562\u0561\u0576\u0563\u0578\u056f, \u057a\u0561\u0575\u0569\u0575\u0578\u0582\u0576\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Second-World-War-bomb-Bangkok.jpg\" width=\"638\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Second-World-War-bomb-Bangkok.jpg 638w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Second-World-War-bomb-Bangkok-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Second-World-War-bomb-Bangkok-451x300.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Seven Thai workers were killed and 19 injured when they tried to dismantle a Second World War bomb with a blowtorch.<\/p>\n<p>The device was discovered by builders on a construction site in northern Bangkok\u2019s Lad Plakao neighbourhood, Thailand.<\/p>\n<p>Believing that it had lost its charge, they sold it to men working in a scrap metal warehouse.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Second-World-War-bomb-Bangkok1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-77923\" alt=\"\u057a\u0561\u0575\u0569\u0575\u0578\u0582\u0576,\u0569\u0561\u0575\u056c\u0561\u0576\u0564\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Second-World-War-bomb-Bangkok1.jpg\" width=\"638\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Second-World-War-bomb-Bangkok1.jpg 638w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Second-World-War-bomb-Bangkok1-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Second-World-War-bomb-Bangkok1-462x300.jpg 462w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The metal workers then began to take the 500lb bomb apart to sell the metal on. The blowtorch caused the bomb to go off, destroying the shop and creating a large crater. It also damaged dozens of adjacent houses and started a large fire.<\/p>\n<p>Police said that five people died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Police bomb squad chief Kamthorn Auicharoen said that it was \u2018likely this is a bomb dropped from a plane during World War II\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>: <a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/\">\u00a0\u0531\u0576\u056f\u0561\u056d<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Seven Thai workers were killed and 19 injured when they tried to dismantle a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":77923,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}