Chinese farmer unintentionally gives grandson an unexploded bomb

  • Man in China dug out an unexploded bomb and mistook it for an old-era toy
  • He scraped the rust away and gave the wartime weapon to his grandson  
  • A neighbour saw the boy playing with the object and instantly called the police

A farmer in east China has unknowingly given his grandson an unexploded bomb to play as a toy. 

Shui Huainian dug out the wing-shaped metal object near his house and didn’t realise it was a bomb and could detonate any time until a neighbour saw the boy holding it.

The neighbour immediately called the police who rushed to Mr Shui’s house with bomb disposal experts and sealed off the area. 

The bomb was ‘safely handled’ and Mr Shui’s grandson was not hurt.  

Mr Shui found the metal object while digging near a ditch at his house in Huai’an, east China

He mistook the wartime bomb as a wing-shaped metal toy and gave it to his grandson

He mistook the wartime bomb as a wing-shaped metal toy and gave it to his grandson

Mr Shui told Jiangsu Public Channel that he found the ‘metal scrap’ while digging near a ditch not far from his house in Lianshui county, Huai’an in Jiangsu Province on the morning of June 19.

‘The shovel hit something hard and I heard some sound, so I thought it was a brick. But then I realised it’s not (a brick) when I saw the wings at the back,’ said Mr Shui. 

Believed that it was an old-era toy, he scraped off the rust around it and gave it to his grandson.

Mr Shui’s neighbour was shocked when he visited the pair and saw the ‘toy’.

He told Mr Shui that it could be an unexploded bomb and immediately called the police.

Huai’an police sent a team of officers and bomb disposal experts to Mr Shui’s house in the afternoon.

Mr Shui's neighbour was shocked when he saw the object and told Mr Shui that it was not a toy

Police and bomb disposal experts were called to the scene to remove the bomb

Mr Shui’s neighbour was shocked when he saw the object and told Mr Shui that it was not a toy (left). Police and bomb disposal experts were called to the scene to remove the bomb (right)

Police officer Hu Hua said: ‘The bomb is partly corroded and covered in rust. There is a possibility that it might explode if it gets hit by accident.’

Bomb disposal experts identified the bomb as a light-weight mortar, an artillery weapon that fires explosive shells.

The mortar is estimated to be buried underground before liberation, roughly before 1949, reported the local broadcaster.

Officers sealed off the area as they ‘safely handled’ the bomb.

Members of public were told to be cautious and they should call the police if they discover any bomb-like objects underground.

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