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Six children killed in Iraqi bomb explosion
Edited for brevity.Six Iraqi children were killed and ten injured when an Iraqi bomb they were trying to dismantle exploded, the British Ministry of Defence said yesterday. The accident happened on Monday near Basra, which has been under British control since the end of the invasion of Iraq. "It seems the children were trying to get the copper out of an Iraqi munition when it exploded," a spokeswoman said. The United Nations said the accident showed how serious the problem of unexploded bombs was. I doubt this was an actual Iraqi "bomb"--probably a shell or a mine, but the reporter doesn't know any better. Posted by: Dar 2003-05-15 |
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