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A 14-year-old boy was critically injured when the object with which he was playing inside an abandoned hostel of a college here exploded today, police said. Rintu Shaw was taken to the Calcutta Medical College Hospital when the round-shaped object he was playing with exploded inside the abandoned hostel of City College on Amherst Street at around 9.40 am, a senior officer of Kolkata Police said.