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Abandoned Bomb Explodes

8-yr-old loses two fingers

Staff Correspondent
A minor boy lost the index and middle fingers of his left hand as a crude bomb he held, mistaking it for a ball, exploded in the capital's Madhya Badda area yesterday.
Eight-year-old Mohammad Fahim sustained injuries near his residence at Adarshanagar of Madhya Badda, police and local people said. He was rushed to Dhaka Medical College Hospital and then shifted to National Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Rehabilitation (Nitor).
The incident happened around 9:00am when two unidentified people handed a shopping bag containing three ball-like objects to Yasin, a seven-year-old who was accompanying Fahim on the way home from Madhya Badda Govt Primary School.
Thinking that the objects inside the bag were balls, Fahim grabbed one wrapped in red scotch tape, said Abdul Jalil, officer-in-charge of Badda Police Station.
The crude bomb soon exploded in his hands, leaving him injured in the abdomen and face as well.
Watching this, Yasin threw away the bag causing another explosion that left him with minor injuries, the OC said. Police later recovered a tennis ball and the shopping bag from the spot.
Agrade-II student, Fahim was returning home at the time of the blast as his
school was closed, said his uncle Rafiqul Islam.
Doctors at Nitor said the boy was out of danger.
His mother Nasima Begum, a garment worker, was seen weeping inconsolably at the hospital.
"My son has lost everything. My son won't be able to work any more," sobbed the mother, who was at work when the incident took place.
The destitute mother added that she had taken up the job only to ensure uninterrupted education for her child.
Quoting doctors, Fahim's uncle Rafiq, who was attending to him at Nitor, told The Daily Star that his nephew might not be able to work with the remaining three fingers of the injured hand in future.
The tendons in the fingers had been damaged severely, he added.
With minor injuries to the lower part of his body, Yasin was receiving treatment at a local hospital.
Police said they were searching for the two men responsible for the incident.