A bomb planted in a toy exploded near the Line of Control (LoC) in Azad Kashmir on Thursday, killing at least two children and injuring three women.
The explosion took place in Kharal Maldiyalan village, Bagh district, some 130 kilometres away from Muzaffarabad.
Bagh police confirmed seven-year-old Moeed and his five-year-old sister Shabana were killed after a ball-like shell they were playing with exploded.
“A six-year-old boy and his nine-year-old sister were killed in the blast while another sister aged 13 and their mother were injured,” Hasan Wazir Afridi, a local police official, said.
“The blast occurred when the young boy discovered an object resembling a ball in the street and took it home to play with his sisters,” he said.
“They found the toy bomb under the bushes of the field near their house,” he added.
Afridi said it was unclear exactly what the device was or how it came to be in the village, which lies some distance from the de facto border with India.
The mother of the deceased and two other siblings also received injuries.