Kabul: At least 10 girls were killed and two others injured in a bomb blast in the east of Afghanistan on Monday, an official said.
Chaparhar district governor Mohammad Sediq Dawlatzai said that the girls, aged between nine to 11, died while they were gathering firewood outside of Dawlatzai village in Nangarhar province’s district and one of them accidentally struck the mine with an axe.
“An old mine left over from the time of the jihad (against Soviet troops in the 1980s) exploded, killing 10 girls and wounding two others,” AFP quoted him as saying.
Most of the bodies were so badly shattered that they could hardly be recognised, Nangarhar provincial government spokesman Ahmad Zia Abdulzai said, putting the blame of the incident on “the enemies of Afghanistan”.
“The mines and IEDs still hit between 20 and 30 people daily in different parts of the country,” said Shah Wali Ayubi, operations manager at Kabul’s Mine Detection Centre.
“There are still a lot of insecure areas where our teams cannot go… we only clear the abandoned IEDs in some parts of the country. We can only have access to those areas after the fighting ends there,” he said.
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