Three children hurt in Chuadanga bomb blasts

Three children, including two boys, were critically injured in two separate incidents of crude bomb blasts in Chuadanga on Tuesday.

Of them, two boys were badly hurt in Jhanjhadanga village of Damurhuda upazila, and a girl was seriously wounded in Raipur village of Jibonnagar upazila.

According to police, when some kids were playing in a mango orchard around 3:30pm, two boys, Laden, 7, son of Selim Uddin, and Tuhin Uddin, 6, son of Badar Uddin, of Jhanjhadanga village, came into contact with a live crude bomb and it exploded.

Right hand and right leg of Laden and left leg of Tuhin were severely injured. Both are undergoing treatment at Damurhuda Upazila Health Complex.

In another incident, a schoolgirl was wounded in a bomb explosion when her father was reportedly making crude bombs at their house in Raipur.

Left hand of Bristi Khatun alias Eka, 14, was blown off in the blast that occurred around 7:45pm, said Humayun Kabir, officer-in-charge of Jibonnagar Police Station.

Eka is a daughter of Aslam Ali, an alleged member of Janajuddha, a faction of outlawed Purba Banglar Communist Party (PBCP-ML), the police official told this correspondent over phone.

Quoting locals, the OC said Aslam was making bombs at his house and the class-VIII student of Raipur High School was doing her homework, sitting nearby her father.

Suddenly a bomb went off there, said the police official. 

Aslam along with his daughter went into hiding soon after the incident, he added.

Later, law enforcers recovered splinters from the spot.

The OC said police were trying to nab them.