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Boy, 12, seriously injured as spent cartridge explodes in fire

A spent cartridge. [File, Standard]

A 12-year-old boy had his hand ripped off after a spent cartridge he threw into a fire exploded at Kolongolo village.

The boy, a pupil at Bishop Korir Academy, had reportedly picked the device in Kolongolo market centre and took it home before it exploded as he tried to burn it.

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