TN boy suffers injuries after biting country bomb mistaking it for eatable

TIRUVANNAMALAI: An eight-year-old schoolboy in Tiruvannamalai district of Tamil Nadu, who bit a country made bomb mistaking it for an eatable, suffered serious injuries on his right hand and jaw on Sunday when the bomb exploded.
The injured boy has been identified as K Deepak, son of Kamalakannan of Kariamangalam village near Chengam. He has completed Class III.
On Sunday, Deepak along with his friend Manikandan, 7, went to Kariamangalam forest range to give food to his grandfather who was grazing goats there.
The accident took place while the two kids were returning home after playing in the forest for a while. Deepak spotted a mysterious object from which an aromatic smell was emanating.
He mistook the object for an eatable and bit it. It exploded in his mouth.
The boy sustained severe injuries on his left side jaw and right hand and fell on the ground.
On being informed by Manikandan, local villagers came to the spot and rushed to Chengam Government Hospital. Later, he was admitted to Government Children Hospital in Chennai Egmore after being referred to Government Tiruvannamalai Medical College Hospital and Government Stanley Hospital in Chennai .
Inspector of Chengam police station Solomon Raja said, “Some hunters had strewn ghee-laced country made bomb inside the reserve forest area to lure the wild animals like wild boar. We have registered a case under Section 308 (Whoever does any act with such intention or knowledge and under such circumstances that, if he by that act caused death, he would be guilty of culpable homicide not amounting to murder) of the IPC. We are on lookout for the accused who placed the country made bomb there.”