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.
Read more...
Source: Kabul Tribune News
Related:
- Own IED kills 3 militants, injures 7 in Afghanistan
November 9, 2017
An explosion of militants’ Improvised Explosive Device (IED) killed at least three militants and injured seven others in Alishing district of eastern Afghan province of Laghman, a statement said Thursday. “The IED went off accidently late on Wednesday when the Taliban militants were trying to place it in along a road in Dehan Karnaj area of ...
- NATO Ministers boost troops for Afghan training mission
November 9, 2017
Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg confirmed today that NATO will increase its support for Afghanistan as part of its Resolute Support Mission. The United States briefed on its new South Asia strategy, under which its troop numbers in Afghanistan have increased. 27 other nations have also said they will increase their troop numbers in the coming months. ...
- State approves extension of Estonia’s missions in Afghanistan, Iraq, Kosovo
November 2, 2017
The Estonian government on Thursday approved the extension of the mission of the Estonian Defence Forces (EDF) in Afghanistan, Iraq and Kosovo by a period of one year. The government gave its nod to a motion to extend by one year the participation of the EDF in the Resolute Support NATO follow-up mission in Afghanistan with ...
- Afghan army defuses 64 landmines, IEDs in day: gov’t
November 2, 2017
The Afghan army found and defused 64 landmines and Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) within a day, said country’s defense ministry on Thursday. “The Afghan National Army (ANA) engineering teams found and destroyed 64 rounds of landmines and IEDs in different provinces within the past 24 hours,” the ministry said in a statement. Taliban militants and Islamic State ...
