Three children step on explosives near army base in Darfur

29/11/2013 21:16

Three children were killed when they stepped on a bomb or landmine near a site of the Sudan Armed Forces in Khazan Tunjur in East Jebel Marra on Friday morning.Eyewitnesses told Radio Dabanga that the three children were herding livestock. The young herders hit upon ‘an unidentified object’ which exploded, leaving the three instantly dead. The victims are Daoud Yousef Suleiman (10), Mahmoud Abdallah Mohamed (5) and Hussein Yahya (4).File photo:Ten-year-old Suleiman Fatul Saim from the Dar El Salam camp for the displaced after an UXO exploded in his face (Unamid) Related:Militias recruit young Darfuris to fight in East Jebel Marra (28 November 2013)Air raids burn 350 houses and 400 acres of farmland in Darfur’s East Jebel Marra (26 November 2013)’We do not dare light a cooking fire’: East Jebel Marra residents (19 November 2013)

Three children were killed when they stepped on a bomb or landmine near a site of the Sudan Armed Forces in Khazan Tunjur in East Jebel Marra on Friday morning.

Eyewitnesses told Radio Dabanga that the three children were herding livestock. The young herders hit upon ‘an unidentified object’ which exploded, leaving the three instantly dead. The victims are Daoud Yousef Suleiman (10), Mahmoud Abdallah Mohamed (5) and Hussein Yahya (4).

File photo:Ten-year-old Suleiman Fatul Saim from the Dar El Salam camp for the displaced after an UXO exploded in his face (Unamid)

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