An old land mine found by children near an Afghanistan village explodes, killing 9

9 children killed by old land mine near Afghanistan village

An old land mine found by children in eastern Afghanistan exploded while they were playing with it, killing nine children, a Taliban spokesman said Monday.

Nine children killed by landmine blast in Afghanistan

Nine children were killed in a blast in southeastern Afghanistan that was caused by a landmine laid during the country’s decades of conflict, a provincial official said

Nine children, five girls and four boys, were killed by a landmine in the province of Ghazni, southeastern Afghanistan.

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.

Old landmine explodes in southeastern Afghanistan, kills nine children

An old landmine, supposedly laid during decades of conflict in Afghanistan, exploded overnight in the southeastern part of the nation, killing nine children - five girls and four boys - a provincial official said Monday (Apr 1).  According to the provincial head of the information and culture department, Hamidullah Nisar, the "unexploded mine" went off on Sunday as a group of young boys and girls were playing with it in the district of Geru, in …

Nine children died in southeastern Afghanistan in the explosion of a mine during the war with the Soviet Union in the 1980s while they were playing with, a representative of Ghazni province said on Monday.