A child was killed while another severely injured Tuesday afternoon in Prithvi Narayan Municipality of Gorkha district when a bomb left by the Maoists went off, various dailies Wednesday said.
According to the reports, the children were playing with the bomb, mistaking it for a toy. The dead child, Bishal Shrestha, was 5 years old while the injured child Sangam Thapa, aged 4, is undergoing treatment at Bharatpur hospital in Chitwan, the reports added.