19 June,2023 02:58 PM IST | Kolkata | PTI
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Five children aged between 7 and 11 years were injured when a crude bomb went off in West Bengal's Murshidabad district on Monday, a police officer said.
The incident took place inside a mango garden at Mathpara in Jangipur around 11am when the kids mistook the round crude bombs as balls and started playing football when one of them exploded, the officer added.
The injured kids have been identified as Aryan Sheikh (8), Dawood Sheikh (10), Ashadul Sheikh (7), Suvan Sheikh (11) and Imran Sheikh (9), police said, adding they are undergoing treatment at Jangipur Subdivisional Hospital.
Police are yet to arrest anybody in this connection.
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