He hit them with a grenade.. A Russian soldier accidentally kills 3 of his colleagues!

A Russian soldier accidentally killed 3 of his fellow soldiers and injured 16 others in an accident in Belgorod region, southwestern Russia.

According to the British newspaper "Express", the soldier's detonation of the grenade led to a huge fire in the yard of a military unit and in a former cultural center in the village of Tunenkoy, which is now used to store ammunition and shelter Russian soldiers in the Belgorod region.

The accident, which occurred 84 miles from the city of Kharkiv in Ukraine, is believed to be accidental.

"The initial cause of the explosion was careless handling of the ammunition," a source in the Russian emergency services told TASS.

According to the emergency services, the soldier accidentally detonated the grenade in the sleeping quarters of the building, causing the ammunition to explode and the fire to start.

And Russian media reported that the explosion was believed to be caused by a "RGD-5" hand grenade, an anti-personnel weapon that has existed since the fifties of the last century.

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