Two children injured as bomb explodes in Bihar

Two children were injured when a crude bomb kept in a garbage heap went off in a village of Bihar's Saran district on Saturday.

The incident occurred at Shivnagari village on the outskirts of district headquarter town of Chapra when the children, identified as Neeraj Paswan and Brijmohan, went to pick up a ball during a game of cricket, station house officer Arjun Yadav told.

Mistaking the thread-wrapped bomb for their ball, one of them picked it up leading to the blast, Yadav said. Though both children suffered splinter injuries in their face, they were reported out of danger at a government hospital here, he said. link