An official said that seven children
were killed in an explosion in an unexploded mortar shell in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday and there have been reports of injuries of about ten people and there has been a considerable loss due to this explosion. In this incident, you can see the latest example of the unequal ordinance claiming civil life. In the country, landmines, domestic bombs and old shells filled with bombs are available in many quantities, and in what place is available, no one knows which day the explosions occur. Laghman's governor's spokesman, Assadullah Dawlatzai said how the children found the mortar and exploded in it, the circumstances surrounding it are being investigated, soon it will be revealed how this explosion happened and how the children found mortar.
All the victims were below the age of 15, he said.
Abdul Maruf Jalili, head of the Legal provincial hospital said that seven dead bodies and 10 wounded were brought here to hospital to the facility, who were injured and died in the blast of a mortar shell.
He confirmed all were children.
The blast occurred on the outskirts of Mehtarlam, the capital of Laghman province, east of Kabul.
The United Nations Mine Action Service recently said that in 2017, about 150 people were killed or injured every month due to mines and so-called remains of war in Afghanistan.
Curious kids often pick up the devices.
While the Afghan-Soviet war in the 1980s and many landmines since the civil war in the 1990s, casualties have occurred in the house as a result of intense fighting between the Afghan government and the Taliban.
