Grenade event in Ukraine on Mon 17th July 2017

In Odessa city, the SMM followed up on reports of an explosion at the ground floor of an apartment building located at 53/2 Dalnytska Street in the Malynovskyi district. The head of police in the Malynovskyi district told the SMM via telephone that a 15-year-old boy had been killed and two other teenage boys injured by the explosion caused by a hand-Grenade (RGD-5). Later in the day, the SMM visited the incident site where it saw large amounts of blood and human hair on the floor and damage to walls inside a room. A police officer onsite told the SMM that a mother and her two sons (15 years old and teenage) lived in the apartment and that when the explosion had occurred the two sons and another boy (14 years old) had been present while the mother had been absent. He also said that it was likely that the explosion accidentally occurred when they had been handling the explosive device.