A grenade exploded in Sheptytske, Lviv region, injuring a drunken apartment resident. His wife and child, who were sleeping in the next room, were not injured, the regional police reported on Tuesday, UNN reports.
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The police received a report of an explosion in an apartment in a building on Shevchenko Street in Sheptytskyi today, November 5, around 5:00 am.
At the scene, it was preliminarily established that "a 27-year-old man living in the apartment sustained an arm injury as a result of a training grenade explosion." "He was drunk at the time of the explosion. In addition to the man, his wife and a minor child were in the apartment, sleeping in the next room - they were not injured," the police said.
A criminal proceeding was opened over the incident under Part 1 of Article 263 (Illegal handling of weapons, ammunition or explosives) of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The sanction of the article provides for imprisonment for a term of three to seven years.
The pre-trial investigation is ongoing, law enforcement officers are establishing the circumstances of the explosion and the origin of the grenade.