Mortar round blast kills 2 children in Afghanistan

Two children were killed as a mortar round left over from past wars went off in Afghanistan’s Badghis province, provincial police spokesman Sediqullah Seddiqi said on Wednesday.

A similar accident claimed the lives of two children in Bagram district of the eastern Parwan province last week, while another blast killed a child and injured two others in Dand district of Kandahar province last month, according to news outlets.

The war-torn country is reportedly one of the most mine-contaminated countries in the world as dozens of people, mostly children, are killed and maimed annually due to blasts of unexploded devices left over from past four decades of wars and civil strife.