Army recruit’s hand grenade throw goes awfully wrong

An army recruit in China had to be quickly dragged to safety by his drill sergeant after fudging a hand grenade exercise and almost killing himself.
The 48-second clip shows the Chinese soldier jogging up to his drill sergeant and preparing his grenade. He throws it, but instead of flying across the wall of sandbags constructed around the ditch they stood in, the grenade hits the wall and falls back into the ditch.

The desperate recruit instantly dives face-down onto the platform, while his quick-thinking drill sergeant jumps into the other side of the ditch from where the grenade falls.

His sergeant drags him into the other side of the ditch split-seconds before the grenade explodes in a cloud of dirt and smoke.