Thanks Mike!!!
........yes this is quite a well known one, but the second one quoted below I've not heard of before searching out the link - can anyone shed any more light on it? (however the term butterfly bomb covers other munitions also so may not be the SD2...it may even have been an M83 given the location??)
Below information taken from the following link...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butterfly_Bomb
".........
Deaths have also been recorded on the Island of
Malta as late as 1981 when Paul Gauci, a 41-year-old Maltese man, died after welding a butterfly bomb to a metal pipe and using it as a mallet, thinking it was a harmless can.[SUP]
[5][/SUP] The latest find of such a bomb was on 28 October 2009, by an 11-year-old boy in a secluded valley close to a heavily bombarded airfield. This bomb was safely detonated on-site by the Armed Forces of Malta.[SUP]
[5][/SUP]
In the TV show
1000 Ways to Die, Season 4, Episode 8, in the last section references a young male "artist" who hung up a butterfly bomb as a sculpture, but apparently due to some frustration in failing to obtain relations with a woman, struck it in frustration and was killed when it detonated. The location and date are given by the show as NY, NY (USA), June 11, 2006. The show states names are changed to protect the identity of the deceased. If true, this is probably the most recent recorded death caused by this munition. ...."
regards Kev