By The five children who lost their lives in a bomb explosion in Katsina State picked a military grenade and were fiddling with it, Blackbox Nigeria learnt.
This is according to an investigation conducted by the police into the incident which occurred on Saturday at Yammama, a village in Malumfashi Local Government Area of the state.
The Public Relations Officer of the Katsina State Police Command, Gambo Isah, while disclosing the outcome of the investigation in a statement, noted that the investigation was conducted by detectives from the police Explosive Ordinance Department (EOD) and the Criminal Investigation Department (CID).
Earlier, Blackbox Nigeria reproted that six people were feared killed in the incident with five others severely injured.
The police, however, put the death figure at five, adding that six others were wounded.
Confirming the incident in an earlier statement, Isah explained that the Division Police Officer in Malumfashi reported that a loud sound was heard from the farm of one Alhaji Hussaini Mai Kwai at about 11:30am.
