US EditionAn 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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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.
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