2 dead, 2 injured after shell goes off in Faizabad Cant area

A woman and her 8-year-old son died and her two other children were critically injured Thursday when an army shell they were trying to dismantle went off near the Faizabad Cantonment area, police said.

Firing and training of heavy explosive devices is a routine practice in the Cantonment area.

According to police, the explosion took place when the woman, identified as Rina Nishad (30), and her three children were trying to open an unexploded heavy explosive device to take out brass.

They found the explosive device in the vicinity of the Faizabad Cantonment