Man gets life for parcel bomb

Man gets life for parcel bomb

HANOI (AFP): A man in the central Vietnamese province of Lam Dong has been jailed for life for using a home-made parcel bomb to settle scores with an executive over a land dispute, the press reported yesterday.

Dinh Van Suong, former chief of the provincial office of the hydraulic enterprises planning union, was also ordered to pay damages of 34 million dong (around US$3,000) for the crime, committed last October.

The suspect package had been left by him as a "present" for Nguyen Van Thoai, deputy director of the Lam Dong hydraulic works company, in the town of Dalat.

It was picked up by a passing motorcyclist and left at the police station, where it was opened. The blast seriously injured five people, three of them policemen.