{"id":563251,"date":"2026-07-28T17:36:33","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T14:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=563251"},"modified":"2026-07-28T17:43:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T14:43:30","slug":"pinsk-district-resident-killed-by-world-war-ii-era-shell-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/pinsk-district-resident-killed-by-world-war-ii-era-shell-explosion","title":{"rendered":"Pinsk District Resident Killed by World War II-Era Shell Explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>A 28-year-old man was killed by the explosion of a World War II-era shell in the agrotown of Parakhonsk in the Pinsk District, the Investigative Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/skgovby\/16012\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On the afternoon of July 26, neighbors of the deceased heard the sound of metal striking metal coming from his yard. After an explosion, they found the man in the yard of his home with no signs of life. His body bore injuries consistent with a blast-related trauma.<\/p>\n<p>An investigative team recovered fragments of the detonated shell, shell casings and components of unexploded mortar rounds.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators established that the man was interested in searching for World War II artifacts and had a particular interest in explosive ordnance. He brought all of his finds home.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_563247\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-563247\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-563247\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/photo_2026-07-28_17-35-42.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"752\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/photo_2026-07-28_17-35-42.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/photo_2026-07-28_17-35-42-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/photo_2026-07-28_17-35-42-1200x705.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/photo_2026-07-28_17-35-42-768x451.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/photo_2026-07-28_17-35-42-681x400.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-563247\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Investigative Committee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_563245\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-563245\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-563245\" src=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/photo_2026-07-28_17-35-39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"752\" srcset=\"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/photo_2026-07-28_17-35-39.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/photo_2026-07-28_17-35-39-300x176.jpg 300w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/photo_2026-07-28_17-35-39-1200x705.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/photo_2026-07-28_17-35-39-768x451.jpg 768w, https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/photo_2026-07-28_17-35-39-681x400.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-563245\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Investigative Committee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 28-year-old man was killed by the explosion of a World War II-era shell in the agrotown of Parakhonsk in the Pinsk District, the Investigative Committee reported. On the afternoon of July 26, neighbors of the deceased heard the sound of metal striking metal coming from his yard. After an explosion, they found the man [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":563250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a68c0180925a.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Pinsk District Resident Killed by World War II-Era Shell Explosion"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142338,143094],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-563251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-incident"],"wps_subtitle":"","permalink_manager":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=563251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/563250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=563251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=563251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=563251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}