Two minor boys sustained critical injuries in a crude bomb explosion at Adarshanagar of Badda area in the city yesterday morning.
The children were identified as Mohammad Fahim, 8, and Mohammad Yasin, 7, both students of local Adarshawnagar Government Primary School in class two. The officer-in-charge of Badda police station, Mohammad Abdul Jalil, told The Independent, “Fahim and Yasin were playing in front of their residence at around 9:00am on Monday when two strangers approached them and gave them a crude bomb, which looked like a tennis ball. They asked the boys to play with the ball and left the scene.”
Soon after the boys started playing with the ball, the bomb exploded leaving the two critically injured,’’ Jalil added.
Locals said an unidentified man gave a bag, containing a tennis ball and two crude bombs wrapped in red scotch tape, to Fahim while he was playing with Yeasin in front of his house at Annandanagar around 08:30am.
The bomb went off when Fahim was about to bring the ball out of the bag, leaving the duo critically injured.
Hearing the bang, local people and family members came to the spot and rushed the children to the Dhaka Medical College and Hospital.
The on duty physicians at the hospital said two fingers of Fahim’s right hand were badly damaged in the blast while Yasin’s legs were injured by bomb splinters.
Nasima Akhter, the mother of Fahim, told The Independent over phone, “The physicians told me that they will perform an operation on my son’s hand to sever two fingers as both the fingers were party blown off in the explosion.
Courtesy of The Independent
