PESHAWAR – Three children were killed and two others injured Wednesday when a grenade they found in a field exploded in northwest Pakistan, officials said.
The four brothers and a neighbor were playing when they found the rusty grenade near a village on the outskirts of the northwestern city of Peshawar.
“The children first played with it and later hit it with a stone causing it to explode,” Mansoor Aman, a local senior police official, told AFP.
Local police official Aziz ur Rehman confirmed the casualties.
Accidents involving discarded ordinance are not uncommon in Pakistan’s northwest. (AFP)
