FAISALABAD: A 10-year-old boy lost his hand and injured his right leg when a grenade exploded in his hand in Akbarabad in the limits of Mansoorabad police station on Sunday.

Police said Faisal along with his friends had gone to a canal for fishing taking advantage of its closure.

They said the children found three hand-grenades which were brought home by Faisal. As he pulled out a pin from one of the grenades it exploded, severing one of his hands and injuring his leg.

Police said the father of Faisal was a butcher and that the family had no criminal record.

The victim boy told police that grenades were found near the Kashmir bridge.

The Counter Terrorism Department and the Bomb Disposal Squad searched the house of Faisal. The boy’s condition was said to be stable at the Allied Hospital.

MURDER CASE: The Dijkot police registered on Sunday a case against three nominated suspects for killing a guard of a filling station on resistance during a robbery bid in Chak 262-RB late on Saturday night.

Sources said the police arrested all the nominated suspects, but the police did not confirm their arrest.

Complainant Qaiser Bashir stated in his plaint that he along with his brother Shehbaz (guard), Ali and Usman were present at the filling station when four masked men came there after scaling its rear wall.

He said the armed men held them hostage and snatched Rs12,000 and a cell phone from them. As robbers tried to snatch a gun from Shehbaz, masks of three of them slipped which revealed their identity.

He alleged that Ahsan targeted the chest of Shehbaz and another bullet fired by Irfan hit his brother’s back. He said the suspects managed to escape. He said all the three suspects, including Rizwan, belonged to Chak 260-RB.

Police said the investigation would tell if the incident was an outcome of an enmity or the guard was killed in a robbery bid.

Published in Dawn, January 23rd, 2017