Ipswich bomb victim wants to face accused man
A bomb-squad officer carries an esky from a house where a man received horrific injuries on Thursday. Photo: Sarah Harvey/The Queensland Times An Ipswich teenager who lost most of his fingers when a home-made bomb exploded in his hands wants to ask the man accused of making it one question: ‘‘Why?’’ The boy lost all but his little finger on his left hand and two fingers on his right hand after the golf-ball bomb he was grasping exploded in May. Three other boys had found the device in the street and handed it to him. The Police Bomb Squad detonated several more explosives yesterday at a house in West Ipswich. Photo: David Nielsen/Queensland Times Glen James Dell, 43, has been charged over the incident and faces a raft of other explosives and drug offences following an accidental explosion at his West Ipswich home last Thursday. Some of charges also involve a booby-trapped bomb workers found in a construction site across the road from the house....