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L. Sojka - AP - Sipa
Three young brothers were killed Wednesday in a grenade explosion they found in a field in northwest Pakistan.
They had discovered this old weapon while playing with another of their brothers and a neighbor in a village near Peshawar, the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
"The children first played with it, before hitting it with a stone, which caused the explosion," said Mansoor Aman, a senior local police official.
"Three of the five children died instantly and the other two are being treated in hospital," he said.
A dangerous area
This kind of incident is not uncommon in the northwest of the country, where old ammunition or artillery pieces, sometimes dating from the war against the Soviets in the 1980s, are brought back from Afghanistan.
The area was also for a time under the influence of the Taliban, against whom the local population had formed militias to dislodge them.
Last year, five people were killed in the explosion of an old mortar shell that a scrap dealer was trying to recycle in the same province.
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