DERA MURAD JAMALI: Three children were injured in a blast in Lehri tehsil of Sibi district on Monday.

Officials said that children were playing outside their home in the western safety band area of the tehsil when an explosive device went off, leaving all of them injured.

Personnel of Levies and Frontier Corps along with rescue teams arrived at the site and shifted the injured to the civil hospital, Sibi.

As per initial investigation, the search team recovered a piece of a hand grenade from the site that caused the incident.

Published in Dawn, January 21st, 2020

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