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Blast kills two Afghan boy refugees in Pakistan

QUETTA: Two Afghan refugee schoolboys were killed and two wounded on Thursday when a grenade they were playing with exploded in a classroom of their Islamic school in the Pakistani town of Quetta, police said.

They said the boys had brought the hand grenade to the class after finding it somewhere along the route to their theology school, or madrassah, in the southwestern town. The grenade exploded when one boy pulled out its safety pin. "It was a hand grenade which exploded in the hands of these boys who were playing with it in a room of the madrassah," said Quetta administrator, or deputy commissioner, Athar Hussain.

Pakistan's military government on Wednesday imposed a ban on wearing hand guns as part of a plan to discourage arms use.-Reuters