A father is dead and his two children were injured when a grenade detonated in their Indiana home on Saturday, according to authorities.
The Lake County Sheriff’s Department responded to the home in the 3400 block of W. Lakeshore Drive at around 6:30 p.m. for a reported explosion.
The family was looking through a grandfather’s belongings at the northwestern Indiana home when they found a hand grenade. The device detonated when someone reportedly pulled its pin, the sheriff’s department says.
The father was found unresponsive on the scene and later pronounced dead. His two children, a 17-year-old boy and an 18-year-old woman, were taken to an area hospital with shrapnel wounds.
The Porter County Bomb Squad responded to the area to secure it and determine if there were any other explosive devices, according to the sheriff’s department.
The Lake County Sheriff’s Department is continuing to investigate this incident.
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