{"id":3348,"date":"2010-08-23T01:01:22","date_gmt":"2010-08-22T17:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/v7\/index.php\/2010\/08\/boy-dies-as-contraband-blows-up-house\/"},"modified":"2010-08-23T01:01:22","modified_gmt":"2010-08-22T17:01:22","slug":"boy-dies-as-contraband-blows-up-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/boy-dies-as-contraband-blows-up-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy dies as contraband blows up house"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"http:\/\/buletinonline.net\/images\/stories\/berita31\/blastMAIN.jpg\"KUALA TERENGGANU<\/strong>: A six-year-old kindergarten pupil was killed and two others seriously injured when an assortment of firecrackers and fireworks being stored in an abandoned semi-wooden house exploded.<\/p>\n

The force of the blast threw Khairul Arif Ayob about 15m into the air. His body was found entangled on a tree top.<\/p>\n

Villagers in Kampung Seberang Baruh in Ca\u00ad\u00adbang Tiga, some 5km from here, described the explosion as something like a \u201cbomb blast.\u201d<\/p>\n

The impact of the blast also damaged three nearby houses. The fireworks were being stored for the coming Hari Raya celebration.<\/p>\n

Khairul, a pupil of a government-run kindergarten in Kampung Losong Atap Zin, was playing outside the abandoned house when the blast occurred at about 12.30pm.<\/p>\n

The injured were two adults \u2014 aged 22 and 23 \u2014 who have yet to be identified. They are being treated at the Sultanah Nur Zahirah Hospital intensive care unit here.<\/p>\n

Witness Nor Shafli Azhar, 36, said Khairul\u2019s head was badly injured in the explosion. He said villagers helped to bring him down from the tree and rushed him to hospital.<\/p>\n

Nor Shafli said he was resting in his house not far from the scene when he heard a thunderous sound that also shook his home.<\/p>\n

He said saw thick smoke billowing from the house .<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I got there, the house was a wreck with a wall completely blown off while the verandah had collapsed. Two men lay sprawled outside with serious injuries,\u201d said businessman Nor Shafli.<\/p>\n

He said one of the men was unconscious while the other, who was lying under broken planks, told him about Khairul and asked him to look for the boy.<\/p>\n

Neighbour Hasnah Abdul Jalil, 50, said she saw several men transporting boxes and storing them at the abandoned house over the past few days.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was not aware that they were storing fireworks but luckily my family was away at the time of the blast,\u2019\u2019 she added.<\/p>\n

Khairul\u2019s aunty Rozita Abdul Rahman, 35, said she was puzzled as to why the boy followed one of their family friends to the site.<\/p>\n

She said the victim\u2019s father Ayob Abd Rahman, 28, and mother Kamariah Hassan, 25, had gone to the city to buy Hari Raya clothes for Khairul.<\/p>\n

\u201cKhairul was not feeling well for a few days and his parents left him with me and wanted to surprise him with new clothes for Hari Raya,\u2019\u2019 she added in between sobs.<\/p>\n

State police chief Senior Asst Comm 1 Datuk Mohd Shukri Dahlan said police had set up a team to probe the incident, and question those involved in the trade of the fireworks. -The Star<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

KUALA TERENGGANU: A six-year-old kindergarten pupil was killed and two others seriously injured when an assortment of firecrackers and fireworks being stored in an abandoned semi-wooden house exploded. The force of the blast threw Khairul Arif Ayob about 15m into the air. His body was found entangled on a tree top. Villagers in Kampung Seberang […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"better_featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buletinonlines.net\/v7\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}