A mortar mine blast kills two children and injures two more in eastern Afghanistan

In Afghanistan’s eastern Logar province, a mortar mine from a past war exploded on Saturday, killing two children and injuring two more, according to a report.

On Friday night, a bunch of children were playing with a toy-like object they had found in the Altamor neighborhood of Pul-e-Alam city, the provincial capital of Logar, when it abruptly exploded, killing two of them immediately and injuring two others, according to the news agency.

Last week, a similar explosion in Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan injured four kids.

While scores of people, usually children, are killed and wounded each year in blasts of unexploded weapons left over from the past forty years of wars and civil conflicts, Afghanistan is apparently one of the world’s mine-contaminated nations.