Taliban: Explosion kills 9 children in eastern Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan — An detonation successful eastbound Afghanistan adjacent the borderline with Pakistan connected Monday killed 9 children and wounded four, according to the bureau of a Taliban-appointed governor.

A connection from the governor’s bureau said the blast took spot erstwhile a cart selling nutrient items struck an old, unexploded mortar ammunition successful the territory of Lalopar, successful eastbound Nagarhar province.

No different details were instantly available.

The state is the office of Taliban rivals, the Islamic State group, which has staged respective attacks targeting Afghanistan’s caller rulers since the Taliban took implicit the state successful mid-August. However, the IS has operated successful Afghanistan since 2014, carrying retired dozens of horrific attacks and astir often targeting the country’s number Shiite Muslims.

Afghanistan is among the countries with the astir unexploded onshore mines and different ordnance from the country’s decades of warfare and conflict. When the ordnance detonates, the victims are often children.