CLAY CITY, Ind. -- A pipe bomb exploded and instantly killed a Brazil man who may have intended to use the device to stun fish, authorities said.
The body of Paul Lynch, 31, was found early Saturday by friends who had been searching for him since the prior evening.
"A shrapnel piece from the bomb ... passed through Lynch's heart, killing him instantly," Clay County Coroner Rick Swearingen said.
Lynch had been fishing alone in Birch Creek near Clay City, about 60 miles southwest of Indianapolis, and had two of the homemade bombs with him. Bomb technicians from the Indiana State Police Bomb Squad defused the remaining pipe bomb, which was made from a steel pipe.
The pipe bomb may have been intended to be used to stun fish in the creek, Clay County Sheriff Mike Heaton said