A bomb exploded in the city of Omdurman, west of the Sudanese capital, today, killing 10 children, including brothers in the Fath area, and injured five people aged between 9 and 12 years, according to Sudanese sources.
Witnesses said the incident took place as the children tried to dismantle the bomb and use the copper in it.
Witnesses said the dead included four brothers, three who died at the moment of the explosion and the fourth died in hospital.
Sudanese news websites quoted witnesses as saying the children had retrieved the bomb from an area where the army was training near the mountain.
"When the children were looking for iron and scrap, they found the bomb near a place where the army was training about a month ago. They brought it to someone's house and tried to dismantle it in order to take advantage of the iron and sell it, but the bomb exploded in them," they said.
"The bodies of the children have been turned into pieces," witnesses said.
"Police forces arrived at the scene and imposed a large secret on the incident, before the bodies of the children were transferred to the morgue of the Omdurman hospital," medical and police sources said.
The incident comes after a fire broke out in the old Sudanese presidential palace in Khartoum, where thick columns of smoke rose before
That the Sudanese Civil Defense Forces can control the fire, according to the Sudanese presidency
Police blocked roads leading to the palace, built in 1832 on the banks of the Blue Nile.
"The fire broke out in a limited number of offices on the second floor as a result of an electrical request," said Mohamed Mohamed Saleh, the secretary-general of the republic's presidency, without elaborating if there were casualties.