WADH: A hand grenade exploded in the Zarchain area of Balochistan’s Wadh city on Tuesday, leaving a child dead and eight others wounded.

Police said some children from a madressah were apparently playing with the hand grenade when it exploded.

The injured were immediately transported to a local hospital in Wadh. Police and law-enforcement agencies cordoned off the area and launched detailed investigation.

Nine people, including four children, died while a woman was wounded when a rocket launcher’s ordnance exploded in a house in Kashmore district of Sindh.