Mortar explodes at workshop

Yasaratne Gamage

A youth was critically injured when a mortar bomb exploded while he was cutting it with an oxygen gun in a discarded metal collecting centre in Nochchiyagama.

The 20 - year youth was admitted to the Anuradhapura Hospital. Investigations revealed that the victim, a hired labourer, was piercing collected metal with an oxygen gun, when the mortar bomb that was among the collected metal exploded.