By Nomava Nobumba
12 May 2010
A Nyanga teenager is in hospital after a gunpowder-filled device used in ATM bombings exploded in her face when she found her young nephew playing with it.
The 15 year old grade 10 pupil was told her right eye would have to be removed as it was badly injured.
Police have described the rock-breaking cartridge bomb as a device as the same type criminals used in ATM bombings.
It emerged that the victim’s nephew was playing outside their Mpeta Square shack on Friday evening when he picked the device.
She took the pipe from him to inspect it when she noticed wires protruding from it.
It is alleged that the girl tried to plug it when it exploded in her face.
She was rushed to a nearby clinic and transferred to the Grooter Schuur hospital where she is in a stable condition.
Police are investigating the incident.
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