KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, April 24 (Xinhua) -- Three children were killed and two others sustained injuries as an unexploded device left over from past wars went off in south Afghanistan's Kandahar province on Tuesday, provincial police spokesman Asadullah Jamshid said Wednesday.
In the province's Maruf district on Tuesday evening, a group of children found a toy-like object and began playing with it. But the object went off suddenly, killing three on the spot and severely injuring two others, the official added.
Afghanistan is reportedly among the most mine-contaminated countries in the world, as countless mines and unexploded ordnances left over from the past more than four decades of wars and civil strife claim the lives of at least a dozen people, mostly children, every month in the war-torn country. ■
