A five-year-old boy was killed and two girls got seriously injured after a bomb went off at Chillauna village under Mufassil Thana, hardly 3-4 km from the district headquarters of Godda. The bomb exploded when the children, while going to the nearby anganwadi kendra, found a bag containing two country-made bombs under a culvert and started playing with them assuming it to be hand-made balls.
“A bag was hidden under pebbles near a culvert at a lonely place outside the village which was spotted by some children while going to the anganwadi Kendra. They took it out and started playing with the ball like material properly wrapped with hemp assuming it to be a ball,” said Godda SP Sanjeev Kumar. The boy who got hit on his genitals, died on the spot while the other two girls injured in the incident have been referred to Bhaglapur for better treatment, added the SP.
When asked how the bag reached near culvert, the SP said that it might have been hidden by some anti-social element during Godda bi-elections when an intensive search operation was launched to sanitize the area. “It probably might have been concealed there in order to take it out after the elections,” said the SP.
looking at seriousness of the matter, Chief Minister Raghubar Das immediately announced Rs1 lakh compensation to the family of the deceased and Rs20,000 each to the girls for getting them treatment. The boy who killed in the incident has been identified Ayush Kumar while the two other girls who got injured during the incident are 6 year old Puja Kumari, six year old Anju Kumari of the same village.
“An inquiry has also been initiated into the incident and we are also taking help of the district forensic team and dog squad has also been called so that we can reach out to the culprits as soon as possible,” the SP said.
In a similar incident which recently took place in Simdega, two children -- Shoshan and Niral, aged between eight to ten years, got seriously injured after being caught in the blasts meant to clear boulders in the way of a culvert being constructed on a road to Dom Toli village in Kolebira Block from Prince Chowk.
Shoshan lost both his eyes from the flying debris in the blast. Pieces of rocks that were sent flying from the blasts landed half a kilometer away from the site of explosion, sources said, and were drenched in blood to the extent that they looked like red mud bricks.
