Unable to disarm it, police detonate the device
On August 9th a person clam-digging in Naklua found a grenade on the beach in front of a house on Soi Sawmill near the Krating Lai junction.
A police expert
carefully examines the grenade before surrounding it with tires and setting it on fire
(picture below)
Ms. Rabieb Sawatkij, the caretaker of a house, called the
Pattaya Police, but no one came. She then called the Sawang Boriboon foundation.
On August 10th a volunteer of the Sawang Boriboon foundation took the grenade out of the
sea and put it on a wall in front of the house. This made the bomb the responsibility of
the Banglamung Police Station.
Banglamung police went to look at the bomb, which was indeed a
grenade with a destructive radius of 10 meters. The pin had been removed.
An expert was called in to disarm the grenade, but the expert, a police Sergeant, could
not do this as the pin had already been pulled.
Officers surrounded the bomb with a rubber tire and set it on fire. After about 10 minutes
the grenade exploded.