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College student injured after steel balls from his homemade bomb shoot into hands
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A HOMEMADE bomb built by a university student during the Spring Festival holiday exploded while he was putting it together and more than a dozen steel balls from the bomb shot into his hands in Xuzhou, in east China's Jiangsu Province, according to a local news website.
The blast didn’t harm the face of the 18-year-old student and will not permanently impair his hand function, the report said.
The student, a chemistry major, was interested in gunpowder and decided on the first day of the holiday to make a bomb to show off in front of his neighbors.
He took apart more than 50 firecrackers for the gunpowder, which he put into a steel pipe. He also put some steel balls into the pipe.
He used a chopstick to pack the powder and balls into the pipe, with a 12-year-old neighbor holding the pipe.
Suddenly the gunpowder in the pipe exploded and the steel balls shot out like bullets.
The university student said most of the steel balls pierced his left hand. The hands of his neighbor who helped hold the pipe were burned but the injury was not serious, the report said.
The boy was sent to the hospital and 14 steel balls were removed from his hands, mainly from the left hand.
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