An old land mine found by children near an Afghanistan village explodes, killing 9
- An old land mine explosion in eastern Afghanistan killed nine children playing with it, per a Taliban spokesman.
- The unexploded ordnance was from the time of the Russian invasion in the 1980s, as confirmed by the Taliban official.
- A report by the International Committee of the Red Cross highlighted 640 children killed or injured in incidents involving landmines and explosive remnants in Afghanistan between Jan 2022 and Jun 2023.
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Kabul (Agencies) Nine children were killed in southeastern Afghanistan in the explosion of a mine left over from the war in the eighties of the last century, according to an official in Ghazni province yesterday. Hamidullah Nassar, director of the Department of Communication and Culture in this state, said: “On Sunday, nine children were killed in a mine explosion.” The Ghazni police said in a statement that five girls and four boys between the …
Nine children, five girls and four boys, were killed by a landmine in the province of Ghazni, southeastern Afghanistan.
Five boys and four girls between 5 and 10 years of age were killed in the mine explosion.
A mine from the times of the Russian invasion, which echoed on a minefield in Afghanistan's Ghazni province on Sunday, killed nine children. The mine exploded while children were playing with it, authorities in the province confirmed.
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