Kabul - At least three children were killed and twelve others wounded when an old explosive device detonated in Afghanistan’s northern province of Baghlan on Tuesday, an official said.
“The children had found a device which they believed was a toy,” the provincial police spokesperson Javed Basharat said.
“After throwing it around and playing with it, it exploded.”
The group of children playing with the ordinance are believed to have been between 8 and 14 years old, Basharat said.
Four of the injured children are in critical condition, he added.
Afghans continue to find old explosive devices from the Soviet Union’s invasion in 1979, which supported the country’s communist regime, and the long, destructive war that followed.
Last week an old explosive device detonated while children were playing with it in Kabul, killing eight and wounding two others.
They also mistook the explosive device for a toy.
DPA