A father is dead and his two children were injured when a grenade detonated in their Indiana home on Saturday, according to authorities.<\/p>\n
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.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
The Lake County Sheriff\u2019s Department is continuing to investigate this incident.<\/p>\n