Blast kills two children in southeast Afghanistan (Agencies) Updated: 2005-04-18 17:26
Two children were killed and two others wounded by a bomb which was carried
by floodwaters into a residential neighbourhood in southeast Afghanistan, an
official said.
The youngsters were playing with the device when it detonated on Sunday in
Itesarq Mena, a district west of Gardez city, said local security chief Ghulam
Nadi Salim.
"On Sunday at about 6:00 pm (1330 GMT) a bomb which was moved by water to a
residential area exploded killing two children, and injuring two other infants,"
Salim told AFP on Monday.
One of the two injured children was in a critical condition and evacuated by
US soldiers to a nearby base for treatment, he added.
It was unclear whether the ordinance had been recently planted by insurgents
or was left over from the two and a half decades of conflict suffered by the
war-torn country.
Afghanistan has been hit by floods caused by snow melt in the wake of a harsh
winter, which have dislodged a number of old mines and other unexploded ordnance
resulted in new injuries.
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