MAGUINDANAO (Mindanao Examiner / 14 Jun) – A wild boar hunter died from injuries after an explosive he was trying set up detonated in the southern Philippines, police said on Thursday.
Police said the bomb, called “ping-pong,” use by many hunters to kill wild animals, detonated while the man, Francisco Nuria, was trying to set it up in the hinterland village of Santa Fe in Sultan Kudarat’s Lebak town on Tuesday.
The homemade explosive is called ping-pong because it resembles a ball use in table tennis. The bomb, although small, is usually packed with gunpowder and steel shrapnel that makes it even more deadly.
Police said the hunter died from severe shrapnel wounds in the body and loss of blood. Wild boar meat, a delicacy in the southern Philippines, is usually dried under the sun and then sold as much as $4 a kilogram, much higher than ordinary pork which costs only $2.50.
The use of ping-pong bomb is illegal in the Philippines, police said, but many hunters of wild animals use the explosive because it is easy and cheap to assemble.
The miniature bomb is also a favorite weapon among street gangs and fraternity wars in the country. (Romy Bwaga and Mark Navales)
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