A 10-year-old schoolboy sustained serious injuries to his hands in an abandoned crude bomb blast in the capital’s north Mugda area yesterday when he started playing with the bomb, thinking it was a cricket ball.
The victim, Rabbi Hossain alias Robi, is a class-II student and the son of Abul Hossain, an employee of a decorator shop. He was whisked off to Dhaka Medical College Hospital in a critical condition.
Riaz Morshed, residential surgeon of DMCH emergency unit, told the Dhaka Tribune, “Robi’s hands were both badly damaged in the explosion. However, the condition of the right hand was comparatively severe, and the child will face difficulty in the future when trying to use it.”
Robi’s father Abul Hossain, who used to reside in house number 11/F in the area, said his child had gone to play cricket in front of his resident around 9:30am and at one stage, he found the abandoned cricket ball-like crude bomb.
When he hit the bomb, which was wrapped in red tape, with cricket bat, it went off with a big bang, leaving him injured. In this regard, Mugda police station OC Faruk Hossain said they visited the spot after being informed. “Miscreants might have left the bomb behind when committing some offence,” the OC explained.