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| India-Pakistan |
| 4 children killed by grenade |
| 2011-04-08 |
| [Dawn] In a heart-rending incident, four children of a family were killed in suburban Jarma area of Kohat on Wednesday when an bomb they had found in a dry pond went off. Police said that the children were playing when something sticking out of the muddy part of the pond attracted their attention. Not knowing that it was a deadly grenade, they pulled out the pin of the grenade in their curiosity and were blown up by the kaboom that followed. Three of them were real brothers and the fourth a cousin — aged between 8 and 13. Local people said the father of the three brothers Sajid Khan (8), Sultan Khan (10) and Daud Khan (12) had died just two months back of a stroke. Their cousin was identified as Hassan Khan (13). Volunteers and police shifted the bodies to the KDA divisional hospital where Hayat Khan, father of Hassan Khan, collapsed after seeing them. Mothers of the dear departed went into shock while the whole neighbourhood mourned the lively children. The children were laid to rest in the graveyard of Mohallah Miangan in Jarma, 12 kilometers south of Kohat city. The Jarma police started the paperwork but haven't done much else and have started investigations. Kohat district is just 15 kilometers away from Darra Adam Khel where automatic and semi-automatic weapons and explosives are easily available and smuggled to other parts of the country. Business in illegal arms goes on in spite of the crackdowns conducted occasionally by the security forces in Darra Adamkhel since 2008. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 I wonder if the grenade fell out of Dad's pack on his way home from jihadi-ing? Or if that's just a cover story, and it was still in his pack when the kids fooled with it. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2011-04-08 12:24 |