[b]This is NOT funny![/b]
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - [b]Two Pakistani villagers were killed in an explosion after they tried to break open an anti-tank mine with a hammer to use the casing for a stove to fry snacks, police say.[/b]
Villager Muhammad Latif found the mine in a village near the town of Sialkot, near Pakistan's heavily fortified border with rival India, and brought it home, Mirza Zafar, a senior police officer in Sialkot, told Reuters on Wednesday.
Latif wanted to use the casing to make a stove to cook pakora, a type of fried snack popular during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan that starts this weekend, he said.
The mine exploded when Latif tried to smash it open with a hammer, killing him and another man...
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/041013/325/f4h8l.html