ROK Marine Dead After Grenade Training Accident

This is a horrible accident that happened in Pohang that appears to have been caused by a faulty grenade:

One Marine Corps recruit was killed and another recruit and an instructor were wounded Tuesday when a hand grenade exploded during a training session in this southeastern port city, military sources said.

The accident took place at around 10:20 a.m. at the drill camp of the South Korean Marine Corps when a hand grenade, clutched by a 19-year-old recruit, suddenly exploded.

The explosion severed the recruit’s hand and he was rushed to a nearby hospital but was later pronounced dead there.

Shrapnel from the explosion wounded the other recruit and the instructor, who remain hospitalized in stable condition, according to the sources.

The military immediately said there were no procedural problems in the grenade drill. The moment the military instructor ordered trainees to “fling,” the grenade blew up, it said.  [Yonhap]

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