Grenade kills 3 Somali children
18/03/2008 16:17  - (SA)  

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Mogadishu - Three children were killed and another wounded on Tuesday in southern Somalia after the grenade they were playing with exploded, said witnesses and medical sources.

The three were part of a group of young goat-herders who found an unused hand grenade near a small village southwest of the capital, Mogadishu, local elders said.

Ahmed Sheikh Ali said: "They were playing with an old explosive device, which I believe was a hand grenade they found near Magurto village. It exploded, killing three boys and critically wounding a girl."

Ado Mohamed, a medic in nearby Afgoye town, confirmed the deaths and said the three were aged between six and nine.

Somali children are highly exposed to mines and unexploded ordinance, after 17 years of almost uninterrupted conflict in the Horn of Africa country. Dozens of people died in accidental blasts in 2007, many of them children.

 

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