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Publication Date
5-10-2010
Keywords
DDAS, 2010, Sri Lanka, handling, M40, grenade
Abstract
Deminers reported that the Victim was in a particularly happy mood that day. The Victim went to the grenade without telling anyone and began to dismantle it. His actions can be reliably inferred because the black cap of the grenade was undamaged at the site (and featured in the first site photographs after the accident). So it seems that the Victim got some way into the grenade before it went off in his hands. Severe hand (amputated fingers), arm, and upper body injury resulted - with bubbling blood and air from open chest wounds. From this it is inferred that the device detonated in his hand and in front of his chest. He was not wearing PPE at the time.
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