KABUL, Dec. 1 (Xinhua) -- Three teenagers lost their lives after an unexploded ordnance left over from past wars went off in southern Afghanistan's Uruzgan province, provincial police spokesman Belal Uruzgani confirmed on Monday.
The victims, aged between 13 and 18, were playing with the device in the Shirkhani region of Char Chino district when it exploded, according to the spokesman.
This marks the third such incident of its kind in Afghanistan in the past 10 days. In separate blasts involving unexploded ordnance from previous conflicts, four people, including children, were killed and nine others injured in the provinces of southern Kandahar and northern Balkh province.
Afghanistan remains one of the world's most heavily contaminated countries by landmines and explosive remnants of war, with millions of unexploded devices scattered across the country as a legacy of more than four decades of conflict and civil strife. ■