KABUL (Pajhwok): At least nine-members of a family, including five children, have been killed in a rocket shell explosion in Kashmore district of Pakistan’s Sindh province, media reports said Wednesday.
Express Tribune reported the incident took place in Kandhkot area of Kashmore district on Wednesday morning.
The explosion took place inside a residence and an investigation is underway, confirmed District Kashmore's Senior Superintendent of Police Rohail Khoso. He added a woman was also injured in the explosion.
Pakistan Peoples Party’s Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari demanded the government probe the explosion that took the lives of innocent villagers.
Khoso said the deceased included five children, two women and two men.
According to him, children found a rocket while playing and brought it home where it exploded, due to which eight people were killed.
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