Five-rupee cricket ball turns out to be one of 87 grenades

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The Sachal police recovered 87 hand grenades with the help of children near the Pak Navy Housing Society, Pakistan Today has learnt.
Sources said that a group of children, who is currently residing at a camp for flood survivors set up at the Super Highway, was playing on a vacant plot No 81 near the camp.
These children found a hand grenade from a drum and sold it for Rs 5 to a young boy from another group, saying that it was a cricket ball.
When the boy took the ‘ball’ to his father, Anwar Solangi, and told him that he had bought it for Rs 5, Solangi was shocked.
Solangi said, “I took the grenade from my son and asked him where he had bought it from. My son told me the location where a group of children was playing around a drum. I gathered other people from the camp and visited the site with them.”
He said they found a drum with dozens of hand grenades in it. “We were frightened, so we took our children away from the spot. After that, we called the police and informed them of the situation,” he added.
Fear and tension gripped the campsite, and the residents left the camps and gathered at the Super Highway for their security.
After the police and Rangers personnel arrived on the spot and condoned off the area, they searched the drum and recovered 87 hand grenades from it.
Gulshan-e-Iqbal Town Police Officer Ahsan Omer told this scribe that the 87 grenades recovered from the vacant plot near the Pak Navy Housing Society could have been used in the city for terrorist activities.
The personnel of the law enforcement agencies searched the area thoroughly and then declared it clear, following which the flood survivors returned to their camps.
According to sources in the Bomb Disposal Squad, the hand grenades are of 2006 Russian make. “The range of impact of these types of grenades is 25-metre radius, and one such grenade can be perilous for 15 to 20 people.”

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