A child was killed andkwhen an unexploded shell detonated in eastern Afghanistan’s Nangarhar province, Taliban officials said Thursday.
The Taliban’s provincial police command said in a statement that the blast occurred in the Hisar Shahi village of Rodat district after several children collecting scrap metal brought home an old shell. Family members, unaware of the danger, reportedly threw the shell into a stove, triggering the explosion.
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Source: Kabul Tribune News
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