13-year-old boy plays with bullet inside Sta. Cruz, explosion follows

It’s dangerous to play with loaded guns and it’s dangerous to play with bullets.

“A 13-year-old boy named Christopher Napili injured when a bullet he was toying with exploded inside their house in Sta. Cruz, Manila at around 8:11pm on Monday, September 29,” reports Rachel Joyce E. Burce in Tempo.

According to the boy’s mother, Celia, 43, she noticed her son and his 16-year-old friend playing with the bullet. Later, she saw them heating up the bullet with a lighter, causing it to explode.

The boy sustained injuries on the right chest and is now confined at Jose Reyes Memorial Medical Center.

The report didn’t say how the boy got hold of the bullet.

Photo from MorgueFile (for illustration purposes only, not the bullet mentioned in story)



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