The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

Three kids were injured as a homemade bomb exploded in South Masundi under Sutrapur Police Station in the old Dhaka yesterday.

The children aged 5 to 10, while playing in the house of Kalu Bapari in the afternoon found an abandoned bomb, which exploded immediately after they touched it leaving them seriously injured.

The victims were identified as -Tamjid, 7, a student of Class II of Haji Golam Mostafa High School and son of Babu Mia, Shahidul Maji, 10, and his younger sister Kulsum, 5, children of Jainal Maji.

Local people rushed them to the Dhaka Medical College Hospital immediately after the explosion.

Tamjid suffered splinter injuries in his right hand and leg, while

Shahidul in his right wrist and Kulsum in her belly, according to the hospital sources.