Six Tanzanian schoolchildren killed in 'grenade' explosion

The victims are being treated at a local hospital

No less than six youngsters have been executed and 25 others harmed in a blast at a grade school in north-west Tanzania, witnesses say.

Reports say the understudies were playing with a projectile they had found.

Three were articulated dead at the time they landed at clinic. The others surrendered to their injuries, Rulenge doctor's facility's specialist in control, Sister Maria Goreth Fredricks, told the BBC.

The school is in Kagera district close to the outskirt with Burundi.

The BBC's Leonard Mubali in Tanzania reports that the district has evacuees from neighboring Burundi, some of them ex-fighters, who could have deserted their weapons in the zone.

He says that the gadget that detonated is probably going to be a projectile.



Kagera provincial police boss Augustine Orome said a security group had been dispatched to the school in Kihinga town.

Our journalist includes that the district is additionally a travel point for arms and it isn't extraordinary for occupants to go over weapons.