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Kitgum, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Two children and their mother are nursing injuries sustained in a grenade explosion at Kitgum–Matidi sub county in Kitgum district.
The injured have been identified as Reagan Omiya, 2yrs, his brother Ivan Mwaka, 5yrs and their mother Christine Akanyo all residents of Bobi B village in Ibakara parish, Kitgum–Matidi sub county. They are now admitted at Kitgum General Hospital.
Kitgum Resident District Commissioner William Komakech says that the three family members were injured by a stick grenade that one of the minors picked from a thicket near their home on Sunday evening.
According to Komakech, preliminary reports indicate that after picking the grenade, the minors took it home and started hitting it to ascertain what it was triggering an explosion.
The family head, Francis Ocan says one of the children lost an arm while another sustained injuries on the right hand and their mother who was cooking inside the kitchen sustained injuries on the thigh.
Patrick Jimmy Okema, the Aswa River Region police spokesperson says a case of injuries as a result of an explosion has been registered at Kitgum–Matidi sub county police out post vide SD 08/31/05/2020.
Okema says the region is not yet free of unexploded ordinances adding it could be part of the numerous unexploded ordinances that were reportedly abandoned by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) fighters during the insurgency in Northern Uganda.
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