Card game ends in four deaths by grenade

Four people died in northeast China after a dispute over a game of cards ended in bloodshed when one of the players returned with a hand grenade which later exploded, state media said Saturday. The four were playing cards on Wednesday in Meihekou city in Jilin province when a quarrel broke out, said the Beijing Times. One of the group later returned with a hand grenade and it went off during a scuffle. Three people died on the spot while the fourth died in hospital the next day, it said. Two passers-by were also slightly injured by the blast.

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