Blast cuts 2 children into pieces in Ghazni

GHAZNICITY(PAN): Two children were cut into pieces beyond recognition when a bomb planted beneath a culvert went off in southern Ghazni province, witnesses and officials said on Sunday.

The children saw a wire under a small bridge and started pulling it out when the bomb detonated in Karosi village of Andar district on Saturday afternoon, killing two children, a resident, Ahmadullah, said.

The district chief, Shir Khan Yousufzai, said the dead were of ages between 10 and 12 years.

Bodies of the victims were cut into pieces and were beyond recognition, a witness, Mohammad Hasham, said.

There was no claim of reasonability for the incident, but the district chief blamed the Taliban for planting the explosive.

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