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Afghanistan/South Asia
3 brothers killed in grenade blast
2005-01-11
Three brothers were killed and their parents injured when a hand grenade exploded at their home in Dringar near Mastung on Monday evening. The district administrative office said that Khan Jan, a farmer, and his three sons were working in their fields when the brothers, - Raza Muhammad, 12, Ehsanullah, 16, and Inayat Khan, 18 - found a box with grenades in it. The bothers took them home in the evening as toys. They were handling the grenades when one of them exploded. The three brothers were killed while their father Khan Jan and mother were wounded seriously. They are being treated in a hospital in Quetta. Iqbal Zehri, the nazim of Mastung tehsil, said that Afghan refugees were previously living in the area where the box was found. He said it was not clear if the refugees had put the box there or if saboteurs had kept it there. Police said they are investigating.
"Honey? Did you remember to pack my hand grenades?"
Posted by:Fred

#7  no wonder these ppl are still pretty much in the stone age (besides weaponry)
Posted by: smokeysinse   2005-01-11 5:00:50 PM  

#6  Try soccer.
Posted by: Captain America   2005-01-11 1:15:01 PM  

#5  Niven & Purnell rock! I spent a lot of time thinking after I read that one.
Posted by: trailing wife   2005-01-11 11:39:12 AM  

#4  Think of it as evolution in action, with a bang.
Posted by: Jonathan   2005-01-11 11:17:52 AM  

#3  Ignorance is bliss. I remember reading here that the new Iraqi enlistees have to be taught to carry their guns with their finger off the trigger unless actually shooting it.

Safety is just a whole 'nother concept. When my father was appointed occupational safety chief for the northern part of a very young Israel, he had the distinct pleasure of mandating and enforcing the wearing of hardhats and steel-toed shoes on the Haifa docks. The workers were not pleased, despite the death rate falling from one per thousand man-hours to less than one per year.

When Mr. Wife was involved in starting up a manufacturing plant in Egypt, the workers refused to wear shoes despite working with sacks of caustic chemicals. He had to tell them that skin contact would make them impotent to get them to comply. He showed us pictures of one of the local chemical supplier's factories, where they covered up a huge hole in a 2nd story floor with a flattened cardboard box.

Insh'Allah! As God wills it.
Posted by: trailing wife   2005-01-11 7:12:24 AM  

#2  Raza "Inayat what happens when I pull this out and let go like this?"

Any question about what happened?
Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom   2005-01-11 6:50:25 AM  

#1  'The bothers took them home in the evening as toys'
that just about sums it up nicely for me ..
At an early age I learnt , dont play with TNT and when not using a gun have it pointing at the ground with safety catch on and cocked if possible .. am sure people in war ravaged countries should know better with over exposure to weapons , but hey , wadda I know :P
Posted by: MacNails   2005-01-11 6:46:32 AM  

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