JERTIH – A bulldozer driver stumbled upon two old bombs while clearing land near a community hall in Seberang Jertih here, this afternoon.
Besut district police chief Abdul Rozak Muhammad said the 32-year-old man found the bombs while digging a hole in the area at 1.30pm.
“Oval-shaped and silver-coloured objects resembling bombs were in the ground in the area cleared by the bulldozer driver.
“He (the bulldozer driver) did not want to take action himself and came to the Jertih police station to lodge a report,” Rozak said here today.
According to him, a team from the Besut district police headquarters’ firearms division rushed to the scene, followed by the Terengganu police contingent headquarters’ bomb disposal unit.
Rozak said that the two old bombs were identified as unexploded ordnance and they were already rusty.
“The bomb disposal unit has carried out in-situ destruction by using the high-order technique successfully, without any property damage or injury,” he said.
Meanwhile, the bulldozer driver, Nik Suhairi Azlan Latif, said that at first, he thought the objects were child’s toys.
“I was quite surprised when I found out that they were actually bombs and I immediately lodged a report at the police station. Fortunately, I did not try to break them with my machine,” he said when met at the scene. – Bernama, May 23, 2023
