Two Children Die in Landmine Explosion in Afghanistan's Paktia Province
Kabul. Provincial officials confirmed on Thursday that two children died in an explosion from remnants of unexploded ordnance (UXO) from past conflict in Afghanistan's eastern Paktia province.
The incident took place in Spena Takhta of Rohani Baba district, where the children found the device while playing and died when it suddenly exploded while they were playing with it, said Provincial Disaster Management Officer and Director Mawlawi Nisar Ahmad Nejat.
In the past three days, in two separate incidents of explosions of ordnance remnants in Ghazni province, two other children were seriously injured.
Afghanistan has been established as a country at high risk due to remnants of landmines and unexploded ordnance due to more than four decades of war and internal conflict.
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