[Al Arabiya Latest] At least 12 children were killed on Saturday when they mistook a bomb for a toy in northwest Pakistan, officials said. "The children had found the bomb outside a girls' primary school in Luqman Banda village of Lower Dir town," local police official Said Zaman told AFP.The children killed included seven boys and five girls ranging between five and 13 years old and seven of them belonged to the same family said Zaman, who visited the site of the blast in the remote mountainous village.
" The children had found the bomb outside a girls' primary school in Luqman Banda village of Lower Dir town "Local police official Said Zaman |
He said it was unclear whether it was a "deliberate act of terrorism" or an accident, as the region is littered with unexploded ordnance abandoned by mujahideen fighters during their 1980s war against Soviet troops in neighboring Afghanistan.