Jollygoodfellow Posted January 22, 2011 Posted January 22, 2011 Really, what hope is left for the country when you read of these things.Philippine bomb squad training gets 'too realistic'MANILA — Bomb squad training for Philippine police became a little too realistic when a grenade went off during a lecture, injuring six officers, an official said.An instructor was teaching other officers how to handle explosive devices such as land mines and home-made bombs when the accident occurred Thursday on the southern island of Mindanao, said police spokesman Christian Carlitos on Saturday."The instructor was demonstrating how to defuse a grenade when he accidentally pulled the safety pin," said Carlitos.The grenade exploded, injuring the instructor and five of his students. They were sent to hospital but had escaped severe injury, police said.Communist insurgents, Muslim separatists and extortion gangs in the Philippines have all been known to use improvised explosives such as land mines and bombs.http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5go1CE9QRg89S06hB0aSWbrrX-rlg?docId=CNG.0a687712ffe53e5e40c68adf7e648abe.991 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jake Posted January 22, 2011 Posted January 22, 2011 Really, what hope is left for the country when you read of these things.Philippine bomb squad training gets 'too realistic'MANILA — Bomb squad training for Philippine police became a little too realistic when a grenade went off during a lecture, injuring six officers, an official said.An instructor was teaching other officers how to handle explosive devices such as land mines and home-made bombs when the accident occurred Thursday on the southern island of Mindanao, said police spokesman Christian Carlitos on Saturday."The instructor was demonstrating how to defuse a grenade when he accidentally pulled the safety pin," said Carlitos.The grenade exploded, injuring the instructor and five of his students. They were sent to hospital but had escaped severe injury, police said.Communist insurgents, Muslim separatists and extortion gangs in the Philippines have all been known to use improvised explosives such as land mines and bombs.http://www.google.co...adf7e648abe.991 Tragic but still funny.....now the communist insurgents just wait for the responding PNP bomb squad to self destruct.What a bunch of douche bags!Jake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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