16 August 2009
Herale — About 10 holy Quran school children have been injured in Herale district in Galgudud region after one of the children took a grenade around the area and then exploded near the school, witnesses told Shabelle radio on Sunday.

Reports say that the child found the bomb in the area and took it into the holy Quran School. But some of the students shouted and ordered him to throw it in the outside of the school and then exploded it near where was not so far away from the school, wounding at least 9 of the children in there.

More residents in Hirale district had reached the holy Quran school where the bomb blast occurred and took all the injured children from the there to get medical treatment in a small pharmacies in the district.

Witnesses told Shabelle radio that the abdomens of three of the wounded children came out and are in a very critical condition at the moment while the other children are also suffering different injuries and cured there.

Herale is one of Galgudud region in central Somalia and has no big hospital and the latest reports say that most of the children were taken to Gureil town hospital in central Somalia.
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