Somalia: Children killed by unexploded ordnance in Lower Juba

AFMADOW, Somalia-Two children have been killed after ordnance exploded in Lower Juba regional district of Afmadow on Friday.

Director of Afmadow General Hospital Hassan Mursal Muhumed told VOA Somali Service that two wounded children have been admitted for the mine-related incident. 

The teens killed while playing toy-like apparatuses some meters away from Afmadow airstripwere 13 years old according to relatives.  

Mines and unexploded ordnance have so far killed and maimed so many children, highlighting concerns over safety of children in the former war zone, Somalia. Clan militias are believed to have planted landmines in vast stretches in central and southern Somalia.  

In September, 2015, two children from the same family died from ordnance explosion in Dom Adi area near Middle Shabelle regional capital of Jowhar.

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