Pakistanis die hitting anti-tank mine with hammer
Wed 13 October, 2004 13:34

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Two Pakistani villagers were killed in an explosion after they tried to break open an anti-tank mine with a hammer to use the casing for a stove to fry snacks, police say.

Villager Muhammad Latif found the mine in a village near the town of Sialkot, near Pakistan's heavily fortified border with rival India, and brought it home, Mirza Zafar, a senior police officer in Sialkot, told Reuters on Wednesday.

Latif wanted to use the casing to make a stove to cook pakora, a type of fried snack popular during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan that starts this weekend, he said.

The mine exploded when Latif tried to smash it open with a hammer, killing him and another man and wounding a three-year-old child, another police officer said.

 

All I can hope for, is that he really had no idea that it was an explosive device. Otherwise, that is one of the most horrifying ways to go, but probably for the best.

 

I’m sorry for the families and sorry for the child. But at least their genes are no longer in the pool.
Not the best attitude I realize, but I believe in natural selection.