LOWER DIR: A four-year-old child was killed and four others were injured when an explosive device went off on the bank of Panjkora River in Shago Kas area here on Sunday, Rescue 1122 officials and police said.

They said that the child along with a group of boys was playing near the river when the device went off with a bang. As a result, a child, whose identity couldn’t be known, was killed while four others, including Sudais, 10, Zakir 16, Nizamuddin, 19, and Basit, 17, were injured.

A Rescue 1122 medical team rushed to the spot and shifted the deceased and the injured to the District Headquarters Hospital, Timergara. The injured were later referred to a Peshawar hospital due to their critical condition, the officials said.

Published in Dawn, February 12th, 2024