A seven-year-old boy was killed and his sister sustained serious injuries in a bomb blast inside the house in the capital’s Lalbagh area yesterday.
The boy, Miraz Rahman, and his 10-year-old sister Neha Akhter were taken to Dhaka Medical College Hospital with critical injuries. Doctors declared Mirza dead around 5:30pm.
Miraz suffered splinter injuries in his abdomen, back, hands and other parts of the body, doctors said.
The blast occurred inside the tin-roofed house near Lalbagh Fort intersection around 5pm when the siblings were playing.
Victims’ father Yakub Ali, a plastic products vendor, said the bomb might have been thrown from outside.
Lalbagh zone Deputy Commissioner Mofiz Uddin said police were investigating whether the bomb was thrown at the house or had been put there beforehand.
A man named Yakub was detained for interrogation. “But it is also likely that the children found the bomb outside and brought it in after mistaking it for a ball.
