A carpenter was injured when a vintage bomb he found suddenly exploded in a construction site in Paranaque City, Saturday afternoon.
The victim, Randy Manalo, 30, sustained injuries on left hand and was rushed to Santa Rita de Baclaran Hospital for medical assistance.
As of press time, police said that Manalo was in stable condition.
According to police, Manalo was working with an excavation team in a construction site at No. 0953 GG Cruz Street in Baclaran, Paranaque, when he found the bomb around 3 p.m.
He described the bomb as “a metal covered in soil,” police said.
When the team lifted the bomb, it exploded and Manalo, who was helping the team, was the closest to it.
No other injured person or damaged property was reported even though the incident happened in a residential area, according to police.
Meanwhile, contactor Danny Pareno said they did not know that the metal, which they planned to sell in a junk shop, was a vintage bomb.
Paranaque police’s Explosive Ordnance Division (EOD) found out that the bomb was a 1936 model landmine buried underneath the ground. (Martin A. Sadongdong)
