Afghanistan landmine explosion kills 10 girls

http://www.euronews.com/ Ten girls were killed and two seriously wounded in a landmine explosion in eastern Afghanistan.

The girls were out collecting firewood when one accidentally struck an unexploded mine with an axe, according to Chapahar district governor Mohammad Seddiq Dawlatzai.

Chapahar district in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province, near the border with Pakistan.

Seddiq said the landmine is thought to have been left over from the Afghan-Soviet War in the 1980s.

The dead girls are all believed to be aged between nine and 13.

One person has died after a car bomb exploded in Kabul inside a compound where a US military contractor is located.

Fifteen others have been injured in the blast after a suicide bomber drove the car packed with explosives to the compound's exterior wall before blowing the vehicle up.

Some of the wounded, including Americans, South Africans and Afghans, are employees of the military contractor and one is said to be seriously injured.

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[shawn turner]

Okay i understand these girls died sad sad BUT it said they threw the axe at the mine

WHY WOULD YOU THROW AN AXE AT A MINE!

[ecasx]

hiting a mine with a axe ? not good ok ppl

[mamamental01]

so sad, may these beautiful children rest with God in eternal Peace

[Sean8033]

May those girls haunt the man who laid the mines!

[schmuddelfinger]

there are mines that are made out of wood and that last couple of decades just like the metal ones..

[tbyte]

How can one "accidentally" hit (probably judging by the damage) an ant-tank mine with an axe ?