Three children injured after crude bomb explodes near Kolkata
Diamond Harbour/UNI: Three kids, aged between 8-12, were on Tuesday critically injured in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas, when a crude bomb, they thought to be a ball, went off while they were playing with it, police said.
The mishap happened around 3 PM near Ghutiary Sharif Hospital Road under Jibantala police station.
The injured, identified as Sk Rohit (12), Sk Mahit (6) and Julfikar Ley (8), all residents of Gourdaha Hospital Raod, Ghutiary Sharif, have been admitted to a hospital in Kolkata.
The boys sustained multiple splinter wounds from head to toe.
The boys found the crude bomb outside a vacant house of one Rajjak Laskar.
During the investigation, police found some live crude bombs were stored in the area, after which police arrested Rajjak Laskar.
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