PLA soldiers escape hand grenade explosion in training Three soldiers of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army successfully escaped a hand grenade explosion in a recent training in southwest China’s Yunnan Province. A hand grenade slipped from a soldier’s hand during training due to the soldier’s sweaty hand and fell beside them. As it happened, the soldier, along with other two soldiers, swiftly made judgment about its drop point and jumped into a hole nearby, and the hand grenade exploded after