PESHAWAR, April 16: Three children were killed and four other people, including two women, sustained injuries when a hand grenade exploded inside a house in the Badhbare village in the outskirts of Peshawar on Monday morning.

Two sisters, Bushra, 9, and Sara, 4, daughters of Jamdad Khan, were killed on the spot while three of their brothers, Siyar, 13, Zulfiqar, 11, and Asfandyar, 7, and their mother, Sharafta, and their grandmother, Dil Feroza, were injured.

The injured were taken to the Lady Reading Hospital where Siyar succumbed to his injuries. Doctors at the hospital said that the condition of all the injured was precarious.

SHO of the Badhbare police station Abdul Rashid Khan told Dawn that Sharafta had asked her son Siyar to sell the grenade to a scrap-vendor because she considered it to be a piece of metal. But Siyar instead of listening to his mother started playing with it along with his siblings. Soon the grenade exploded proving fatal for the family.

When the SHO asked Jamdad the reason for keeping a grenade at home, he claimed that he had an enmity with someone and had kept it for his safety.

An FIR has been registered under the Explosives Act.