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A central Honiara residential area was rocked on Sunday by the detonation of a buried Howitzer shell which left one person dead and three others injured, two seriously.
The 101mm cannon round exploded in the Lengakiki area where the four youth members of the Kukum Seventh Day Adventist Church had been holding a fund-raising barbecue.
An elder from the church, Lloyd Tahani, said the open fire they were cooking on was directly above the shell. Maybe, because they had been cooking a long time, it triggered the bomb to explode, mused Tahani.
He said the young man who was killed, who he identified as Raziv Hilly, was hit directly as he was cooking beneath a mango tree while the other three injured people were standing nearby.
“Maybe, because they had been cooking a long time, it triggered the bomb to explode,” said Tahani.
He said the young man who was killed, who he identified as Raziv Hilly, “was hit directly” as he was cooking beneath a mango tree while the other three injured people were standing nearby.
The incident has left the people in Honiara shocked and scared, said Tahani.
‘Fear to the residents’
“It brought fear to the residents in Honiara because, you know, Honiara is where the battle between Japan and the USA finishes,” he said referring to the 1942-43 Guadalcanal campaign.
“You just don’t have a comfortable environment when such things happen. People just feel that we don’t know whether a bomb is still sitting under your house or somewhere where you’re staying.”
Aviation Engineer Killed in Bomb Blast
The RSIPF Forensic and Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team have since identified the bomb that caused the blast yesterday.
Source: Supplied Monday, 10 May 2021 08:31 AM
An aviation engineer at the Ministry of Communication and Aviation (MCA) was the victim of the tragic bomb blast in Honiara on Sunday 9th May.
The incident occurred on the property of a private residence where a group of church youths were preparing food outdoors for a fundraising event.
The late Raziv Hilly who was also a youth leader was said to be a very instrumental staff in the expansion of the Honiara International Terminal Project as he was the Acting Chief Operating Officer as well as Property Manager in the MCA at the time of his passing.