Three Children Killed In Grenade Blast In Pakistan: Police

The children found the hand grenade in an open area and brought it home taking it to be a toy bomb and later started playing with it, a senior police official said.

Three children were killed on Friday when an abandoned hand grenade they were playing with exploded in Pakistan's troubled of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) province, the second such incident in the province within a month. The incident happened in the remote Nasran district when the children found the hand grenade in an open area and brought it home taking it to be a toy bomb and later started playing with it, a senior police official said. He said a police team has been sent to the site to collect evidence. Mehmud Khan, the Chief Minister of KPK, has expressed profound grief and sorrow over the death of the children.