"Gambia News : 'Grenade' explodes in yundum, kills a 10 year old boy"

"Residents of New Yundum in Kombo North, Western Region were on Tuesday evening thrown into panic when a suspected grenade device exploded in the hands of a 10-year-old boy (name withheld), resulting to his instant death.
This sad incident happened at around 5PM.

Narrating the incident to this reporter who arrived at the scene shortly after the explosion, Yassin Trawalley, the mother of the deceased said he was on his way from school -St Peters Primary School in Lamin, when he found and picked up the said device that looked like a bottle. She said the boy's elder sister told her [the mother] that she saw the device with the boy, but thought it was a normal small bottle and made no attempt to take it from him.

According to the mother, when the little boy arrived at home, she served him his lunch and later asked him to go and attend his normal evening Arabic classes. She continued: "So when he returned from the Arabic classes, I heard him talking and I asked him whether they have closed and he replied in the affirmative. I then asked him to go and take bath. In the process of him preparing to get to the bath room to take bath, I heard an explosion. I then rushed out of my house and saw the body scattered into pieces."

The sound of the explosion could be heard almost a kilometre away.

Some of the security officers who later visited the scene could not say exactly what the exploded device was. Some suggested it was a grenade while others said it was a bomb. Meanwhile, the recovered parts of the body have been taken to the Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital in Banjul.

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