Elderly woman in China defies death after using hand grenade as hammer for 20 years, stuns mainland police and social media

Unsuspecting elderly woman uses hand grenade as a tool for cracking nuts, hammering nails for 2 decades. — SCMP

An elderly woman in China who thought she was using a simple hammer to crack nuts and embed nails for 20 years was shocked to discover that the tool was actually a hand grenade.

The astonishing story began two decades ago when the woman, surnamed Qin, who is now 90 years old, from Xiangyang, Hubei province in central China, found an unusual “metal lump” while working on her farm in Huangbao county.