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| Three teenage boys killed by bomb explosion in Aceh |
| 2003-02-22 |
| A pipe bomb explosion killed three teenage boys aged 16 to 18 on Friday in Aceh province, where the government and separatist rebels signed a December peace agreement, military and village officials said on Saturday. "A five-meter homemade pipe bomb blew up in the remote village of Cot Siren, North Aceh, and killed the three schoolboys," military spokesman Maj. Eddi Fernandi told AP. A five meter pipe bomb? Village head Jafar Abdullah said the boys were on their way to watch a volleyball game in a field near the local district office when they stopped for a rest on top of three pipes that had been there for over a month. Antara reported that the bomb, outside a recently burned-down subdistrict government office, exploded as the youths carried it away. "The three all touched the object but after 10 minutes it exploded," said a resident. He added he did not know what the object was. My guess is that it was a bomb... "We are unclear on what the motive was but we suspect that the boys planted the bomb and it exploded," Eddi said. Movement spokesman Tengku Jamaika denied that the boys were members of the Free Aceh Movement. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |