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Chinese soldiers play with explosives

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Soldiers throw a satchel full of explosives.
Soldiers throw a satchel full of explosives.
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The Chinese government has released footage of soldiers playing explosive pass-the-parcel during a training exercise in Hong Kong.

The video of the deadly drill shows the six men counting down as they hand a smoking package to each other before the last one throws the satchel in a hole and they all dive for cover.

The resulting explosions send a blast of earth several meters high.

The exhibition drill was held last month when Hong Kong's chief executive Sir Donald Tsang inspected the troops, but footage has only just been released and shown on Chinese Central Television (CCTV), British newspaper the Telegraph reports.

The People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers were also shown carrying heavy logs, leaping through rings of fire and riding motorcycles at high speed.

The PLA said the "near impossible" tasks were designed to improve "psychological strength" and to forge "fighting spirit".

There are 6,000 PLA troops based an elite garrison in San Wai, a district of Hong Kong that borders the mainland.

 

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