KABUL, Sept. 7 (Xinhua) -- One child has been killed and three others sustained injury as an explosive device went off in Hasan Khil district of the eastern Paktia province on Tuesday, a local media outlet reported Wednesday.
Quoting police sources, Tolonews reported that the incident took place in Ahmad Khil area of Hasan Khil district on Tuesday evening, and the ill-fated children were playing with a toy-like device but it exploded, causing the casualties.
A similar incident claimed the life of a child and injured two others in Burka district of the northern Baghlan province 10 days ago.
Afghanistan has been regarded as the most mine-contaminated country as countless unexploded ordnances including anti-personnel mines have been left over from the past more than four decades of wars, which often kill or maim innocent people, mostly the children. ■
