Construction workers fled in panic after discovering a mortar shell that fell from a concrete mixer truck while pouring ready-mixed concrete to build an overflow dam. They quickly called the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team to handle the bomb, which is suspected to have come from sand dredged from the Mekong River.
On 28 May 2026 CE, reporters reported that at 11:30 a.m., police officers from Mueang Amnat Charoen Police Station received a report from construction workers building an overflow dam who found a suspicious object resembling a mortar shell that fell from a concrete mixer drum while the truck was pouring mixed concrete at the dam construction site in Ban Khok Khai, Kai Kham Subdistrict, Mueang District, Amnat Charoen Province. Upon receiving the report, they coordinated with the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) team from Amnat Charoen for inspection.
At the scene in front of the overflow dam construction site in Ban Khok Khai, Kai Kham Subdistrict, Mueang District, Amnat Charoen Province, several construction workers were present. Veera Pharawech, a 69-year-old worker at the dam site who brought the shell out of the construction area, revealed that while the workers were smoothing the finished concrete being poured from the mixer drum, as the concrete was nearly finished, they saw the object drop out.
At first, they thought it was a bottle and picked it up, but it turned out to be an object resembling a bomb. The construction workers scattered in panic. Veera quickly placed the object away from the dam site and covered it with a car tire before notifying authorities to safely dispose of the bomb. Had it exploded then, many workers could have been injured or even killed.
Later, the Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) police team carefully recovered the suspicious object that the workers had placed and covered with a tire. The recovery required caution. Upon successful retrieval, it was confirmed that the object was a mortar shell. The EOD team then destroyed the explosive device.