PESHAWAR: At least two children were killed and another critically wounded in a grenade explosion in Buner, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, on Sunday, officials said.
According to details, the children of a shepherd were playing in a mountainous village when they found a hand grenade, said DC Buner Zariful Maani, adding that the bomb accidentally went off, killing two brothers aged nine and 10, and wounding their seven-year-old cousin.
The village is close to Swat Valley, where the army sent 30,000 troops in 2009 to battle militants of the proscribed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) led by Maulvi Fazlullah. He had taken control of the valley and waged a campaign of violence, including beheadings and attacks on girls’ schools. Officials say that Fazlullah had fled to Afghanistan during the Zarb-e-Azb offensive. In 2013, Fazlullah became chief of the TTP.
