CHILD HIT BY GRENADE
Wounded In Back By Fragment
(New Zealand Press Association) AUCKLAND, January 19.
Jean Gilbert, aged 10, of Glen Massey road, Ngaruawahia, was cut by flying metal when an Army hand grenade she found exploded within 30 feet of her. At Waikato Hospital 13 stiches were inserted in a deep cut in her back.
The grenade was one of 14 stolen from the magazine at the Waikato military camp. The police have interviewed five Ngaruawahia youths about the disappearance of the grenades. Jean found the grenade lying on the abandoned Glen Massey railway line near her home. She pulled out the pin. When the bomb started to smoke and hiss she ran away. The grenade fell out of her hand into a gap between the sleepers, thus shielding her from the full force of the explosion. In addition to the cut on her back she received many small wounds on the back of her legs from gravel thrown up by the explosion. All the missing grenades have now been recovered or have been exploded.
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Press, Volume XCIX, Issue 29107, 20 January 1960, Page 16
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