An explosion, allegedly caused by an abandoned grenade, killed at least two children yesterday and injured another kid in a field near the firing range of Savar Cantonment.
Hridoy and Shubho, both aged ten years, were killed in Mostapara village in Birulia union; Salman, 11, was also injured in the explosion.
The locals and the families of the deceased said some children were playing in a field near the cantonment’s firing range where Shubho found a grenade lying abandoned on the ground. As he was bringing the grenade back home, it went off.
Savar Model police station OC Abdul Motaleb Miah confirmed that it was a grenade that went off and killed the two children.
Visiting the site of the explosion, the Dhaka Tribune found that army personnel were restricting journalists from taking any pictures there. The army men also refused to comment on what might have caused the explosion.
Local residents, however, claimed that grenades that are used to train army personnel on the nearby firing range had been left abandoned on the field, leading to the accident.
