2 Children In Bengal Pick Up Crude Bomb Mistaking It For Ball, Injured

The incident happened in Bhangor amid the polling for panchayat elections in the state, they said.

Two children were injured in a blast in West Bengal's South 24 Parganas district on Saturday which happened when they picked up a crude bomb from the roadside mistaking it to be a ball, officials said.

The incident happened in Bhangor amid the polling for panchayat elections in the state, they said.

"The two children mistook the crude bomb for a ball, and as one of them touched it, it went off. Security forces were sent to the area to find if any more bombs were there," an official said.