澳女生帶手雷進課堂展示講解 學校緊急疏散

澳大利亞一名11歲的女生帶着一枚手雷參加班裏的展示講解活動，結果導致全校450名學生和60名教師緊急疏散。這枚手雷沒有引爆栓，經彈藥專家檢測後認定可能是一枚來自一戰時期的廢棄手雷。據女生家人介紹，這枚手雷是幾周前一位朋友帶至家中的，大家都認爲是仿造品，纔會讓女孩帶到學校展示。學校老師見到女孩帶來的手雷後，立即將其上交給校長並疏散了全校師生，同時報警處理。校方表示，這名女生不會受到任何懲罰。

A school in Australia has been evacuated after an 11-year-old girl brought a hand grenade to show-and-tell.

A police bomb squad removed the device and cordoned off the area around the school after the girl turned up at a morning class with the grenade, which did not have a pin.

Police said the girl's family received the grenade from a friend several weeks ago and thought it was a dummy. The grenade has been taken for examination by Defence Force munitions experts but is believed to have been an inactive device, possibly from World War I.

The school's headmaster, Boyd Allen, said the girl's teacher brought the grenade to him and he immediately evacuated the 450 students and 60 teachers and called the police.

"I wasn't sure if it was a dummy and I didn't want to take that chance," he said.

Mr Allen, from the Hunter Christian School in Newcastle, said the girl would not be punished.

"She's bewildered, embarrassed – I tried to make her aware she's not in trouble,'' he said.

"She's a sweet young lady from a lovely family. She understood it to be a dummy hand grenade that had been deactivated, there was no firing pin, just the body of the grenade. It was heavy, but I assume practice grenades would weigh that much too."

Police said the device had been inspected by Defence Force experts, who took it for testing and would probably destroy it.

"There's no doubt that it did pose a potential threat and the actions we've had today are appropriate in the circumstances," said Police Inspector Gerard Lawson.

"In a classroom, certainly if it was live and it was a fully functioning device it would cause serious injuries to all the occupants."