Grenade attack on orphanage in Burma kills 10, wounds 27 - Polidicks

[IMG]http://www.mizzima.com/images/NewsPhotos/NOV11/booming-in-kachin.jpg[/IMG] [quote]Chiang Mai (Mizzima) - A hand grenade thrown into an orphanage in Myitkyina in the north of Burma killed 10 people and seriously injured 27 on Sunday evening, according to residents. At around 9 p.m., two people riding a motorcycle threw a parcel that contained a grenade into an orphanage owned by Dayaung Tangoon near the AG Church in Thida Ward in the capital of Kachin State. Ten people including Dayaung Tangoon’s teenage son, Sai Kwan, one daughter and a 1-year-old grandchild were killed by the explosion. Three buildings including the orphanage burned after the attack. Residents said they have no idea who was responsible for the bombing. “At the back of Dayaung Tangoon’s orphanage, there is a path. Residents said that two people riding a motorcycle threw a parcel into the orphanage compound and shortly after that they heard the sound of the blast,” a neighbour said. Dayaung Tangoon, a member of Myanmar Martial Art Federation, was traveling when the bombing occurred. More than 30 people including orphans, refugee children and martial arts students lived in the compound. Some of the injured underwent surgery at the local hospital. Increased police patrols have basically shut down the city after 7 p.m. Residents said a series of earlier bomb explosions were probably intended as threats because they occurred in unpopulated areas. The state-run newspaper New Light of Myanmar reported on Monday that two bomb blasts hit Myitkyina on Sunday evening, and authorities successfully removed one time bomb. The newspaper said that an explosion occurred near the Sports and Physical Education Department Office in Thida Ward at 9.55 p.m., leaving a deep hole marking the explosion. Another blast followed at 10.15 p.m. near Sumprabum Road and Sethmu junction in Tatkon Ward. There were no casualties, said the newspaper. The newspaper also reported a time bomb was disabled: “Acting on a tip-off that a suspicious package was found near a lamppost by Aung San Road in Ayeya Ward in Myitkyina, authorities removed a time bomb in a plastic box with a diameter of 3 X 2 inches filled with TNT gunpowder set to detonate at 9 p.m.” On Monday, Kachin State Chief Minister La John Ngan Hsai visited the injured at Myitkyina Hospital. The Kachin Independence Organization and government troops have been fighting about 10 miles away from Myitkyina. [/quote] [URL="http://www.mizzima.com/news/inside-burma/6178-grenade-attack-on-orphanage-in-kachin-kills-10-wounds-27.html"]Source[/URL] Well. My faith in humanity is officially dead.

It's a bad sign how this display of how low someone can get doesn't surprise me any longer. :(

Wow, really? Was the grenade tied to a puppy, too?

I work with several local orphanages and I love all the kids there in each orphanage. If this happened to any of those orphanages I work at, I would probably break down and be severely depressed. This article was really heart wrenching for me to read.

Damn, I've always heard of death metalists burning down orphanages as a joke, but I never thought someone would be that sick in the head to actually do it. How someone goes through with doing something as horrible like that blows my mind. I'd feel the same way if it was any other building with innocent people, but it being an orphanage just makes it even worse because the kids that were in there had already lost their parents. [editline].[/editline] Oh god, I just realized I made a horrible pun.

What... the fuck? What kind of cowardly, wormlike, parasitic excuse for a human being would even CONSIDER doing something like this? I rarely say this, but the worthless bastard behind this needs to be strung up from the nearest tree.

I think they have to bring back the "Slow and painful death penalty".

[QUOTE=XazoTak;33276810]I think they have to bring back the "Slow and painful death penalty".[/QUOTE] And be a monster just like them, good job. This will bring back the dead, absolutely.

I once met a guy on yahoo answers. He created something talking about how orphans were the devil's children. I told him off and he said he was going off on his motorcycle to clear his head. :(