LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan, Mac 24 (NNN-ANA) – Three children lost their lives and two others sustained injuries, as an unexploded ordnance went off, in southern Afghanistan’s Helmand province, yesterday, provincial government spokesman, Mawlawi Mohammad Qasim Riaz, said.
The innocent children were playing in an open area in Garmsir district, yesterday morning and found a toy-like device, but the device exploded, killing three of the children on the spot, and injuring two others, the official said, adding that, the injured children have been shifted to a nearby hospital.
A similar incident claimed the lives of two children and injured seven others in the northern Baghlan province in mid-Jan.
Afghanistan reportedly is one of the most mine-contaminated countries in the world, as explosive devices and unexploded mines, left over from the more than four decades of wars, claim the lives of over a dozen people, mostly children, every month, in the country.– NNN-ANA
