Grenade wounds 2 schoolchildren:

A hand grenade exploded Tuesday, wounding two schoolchildren, one critically, as they were playing with it in a remote northwestern Pakistani village, police said.

The incident took place a primary school in Dhob Darra of northwestern Upper Dir valley, where Taleban militants have been active.

Two children who came to school early found a grenade lying on the ground. They picked it up and started playing with it before removing its pin, senior police official Zahid Khan told AFP.

One of the children was critically wounded while the other had light injuries, Khan said, adding that police suspect militants had left the grenade there.

Taleban militants stormed a school in Peshawar in December 2014, killing more than 150 people, mostly children, in Pakistan’s deadliest-ever terror attack. (AFP)