“A mine left over from the time of the Russian invasion (…) exploded when they were playing with it,” said the head of the Ghazni Province Information and Culture Authority, Hamidulla Nisar, on Monday. “Unfortunately, nine children were killed.”
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According to police, the victims of the incident in Geru district on Sunday were five girls and four boys between the ages of four and ten.
Large swaths of Afghanistan are littered with mines and other remnants of decades of conflict that spanned the Soviet invasion in 1979, the ensuing civil war and the radical Islamic Taliban’s 20-year insurgency against foreign-backed governments. People still regularly die today because of unexploded explosives and mines; according to the Red Cross, children are the main victims.
Another explosion
According to police, another child was killed on Sunday when an unexploded device detonated in Herat province. Five other people were injured.
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