Student blows his own hand off to impress a girl

A Clumsy chemistry student made a homemade bomb to impress a girl but ended up blowing his own hand off, it is claimed.

The 17-year-old teen is said to have bragged to his friends about the improvised explosive device he made in his bedroom.

Pictures even appear to show that he posed for a photo with his bomb-making kit at his flat on Vasilievskiy island in Russia’s second city of St Petersburg.

But the bungling teen, identified only as Andrey, is thought to have accidentally detonated the explosives.

He is currently being treated in St Mary Magdalena after losing one hand in the blast and injuring the