SANGHAR: Explosion

Published October 1, 2003

SANGHAR, Sept 30: A bomb found by an scavenger boy a week ago in Khipro town went off in the house of Achar Kumbhar in Kumbhar Paro on Monday.

The boy, Akhtar Kumbhar, 12, had picked the device from a school ground. He brought it home and tried to sell to junk traders but no one purchased it. He took it back and dumped at the courtyard of his house.—BoC

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