QUETTA – A grenade blast in Quetta’s Kharotabad area killed three childrenon Thursday.
According to the reports, three children were killed when a hand grenadethey mistook for a toy went off, in the Kharotabad suburban area of Quetta.
Police and rescue teams reached to the spot and the bodies and injured wereshifted to the hospital by ambulance. The children were playing with a handgrenade when it exploded and killed them.
According to Balochistan government spokesperson Liaquat Shahwani, threeothers were injured in the explosion.
An inquiry is underway to determine where the children found the handgrenade, he said.
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In an earlier message, Shahwani had said that the police have reached thesite of the incident and have begun a probe into the nature of theexplosion.
“The injured children are being provided the best possible treatment inhospital,” he added.
