Jahangir Lolabi
Kupwara, Jul 15 (GNS): A 10-year-old boy was wounded after an ‘abandoned grenade’ he was playing with went off in Parraypora Kalaroos area in north Kashmir’s Kupwara district on Thursday afternoon, official sources said.
They said that the boy, namely Zubair Ahmad son of Ghulam Mohammed Khan was fiddling with the abandoned grenade he had found somewhere close to his residence. The device exploded, resulting in injuries to the boy who was immediately removed to a local health facility.
A police team reached the spot and found another unexploded grenade there, the sources told GNS.
A police officer told GNS that the grenades were very old and that the injured boy’s condition was stable. “He has even been discharged from hospital,” the officer added. (GNS)
