GHAZNI, Afghanistan, Apr 11 (NNN-ANA) – Two children were killed as a mine, left over from past wars, went off in Afghanistan’s eastern Ghazni province, the state-run Bakhtar News Agency reported, today.
A group of children found a toy-like device in the Gulzar Borjagi village of Nahoor district, yesterday afternoon, and began playing with it, but the device exploded, killing two children on the spot, the news agency added.
A similar blast claimed a child’s life and injured another in Ghazni’s neighbouring Kandahar province, a day earlier, on Sunday.
Afghanistan is reportedly one of the most mine-contaminated countries in the world, as dozens of people, mostly children, are killed and maimed every month, due to blasts of unexploded devices, left over from the past four decades of wars and civil strife.– NNN-ANA
