'Ghost' blows himself up

2005-12-09 17:58

Phnom Penh - A Cambodian man accidentally blew himself up with a hand grenade to prove he was alive after he became angry when fellow revellers at a party mistook him for a ghost, said police on Friday.

Police at the north western border town of Sampouv Loeun said Mouv Nget, 36, had become angry after partygoers accused him of being a ghost and not a real man and he left the party, returning with a stick and a knife.

Sampouv Loeun police chief Peng Sothy said: "But, the people at the party just laughed and threw him out both times, so he went home and got a Chinese hand grenade before returning to the party a third time, which then blew up in his hand, killing him and seriously wounding five others.

"I mean, what can you say? He was drunk. He obviously was not thinking."

- SAPA