Careless handling of ammunition and self-made explosive devices left one person dead and at least six others injured in separate accidents across Russia over the weekend, criminal police said on Monday.
“Last weekend, some Russians decided to get rid of garbage as well as ‘unattended’ explosive devices,” police said in a statement. “As a result, the cleaning ended in one death and serious injuries to six people in several Russian regions.”
A 57-year-old man in the Amur Region died on Saturday attempting to dismantle an 80-mm artillery round in his backyard. His wife was hospitalized.
A 64-year-old man in Tatarstan was seriously injured on Saturday in an explosion while attempting to make an improvised explosive device.
On the same day, careless handling of a flash bang grenade led to an explosion that injured and burned a man in the Vologda Region.
On Sunday, two men in the Nizhny Novgorod Region were hospitalized after sustaining serious injuries in an explosion of a 76-mm artillery round buried underground. The men were cleaning the territory around a grocery store.
