Meiktila, 11 July
A resident in Meiktila Township, Mandalay Region discovered six old shells which are believed to be from Japanese occupation period during WWII near a pond on 10 July.
Upon receiving information about the discovery of old bombs, a police squad from a nearby police station went to the scene where the antiquated munitions were discovered. Six old bombs were found near a pond in the compound of a man named U Thein Aung, 76 years old from Wunzin Ward. The house owner confessed that he took old shells ranging from 12 inches in length and around 4 inches in circumference after he found them in a jungle and kept in his house.
The police commandeered the explosive ordinances and handed them over to the security personnel from the No. 911 Military Engineering Regiment.—Thein Myint Kyaw
Translated by Kyaw Htike Soe
