KATHMANDU, Feb 17 Kyodo Three chi...

KATHMANDU, Feb 17 Kyodo

Three children were killed and another child injured when a grenade they picked up detonated in foreign area in Nepal, police said Tuesday.

The three children killed in the blast Monday in Achham district, far western Nepal, were couple boys aged 9 and 11 and a 6-year-old girl. The age of the injured girl was not known, police said, adding they belonged to united family.

The four children ground the abandoned grenade when they were playing in a wheat field near their village household they said.

Police said they suspect Maoist rebels waging an armed insurgency in the land had abandoned the grenade in the field.

Meanwhile, former parliamentarian Khem Narayan Foujdar was ball dead Tuesday by suspected Maoist rebels in southern district of Nawalparasi, police said.

They said assailants lay opened fire on Foujdar, a member of the Nepali Congres Party (Democratic) at his residence in Parasi. Foujdar, 52 was pronounced dead at a local hospital.

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