In
a tragic incident reported from northwest Uganda, six children were killed
and five sustained injuries on Tuesday after an old bomb detonated while they
were playing with it. The kids found the explosive in the bushes, news agency AFP
reported citing police sources.

“The
children were playing in the bushes on Tuesday afternoon when they came across
an object, and it exploded as they were playing with it,” Josephine
Angucia, a regional police spokeswoman, told AFP.

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While three of them died on the spot, other three succumbed to injuries on their way to a hospital in Adjumani, said the police.

According to security officials, preliminary investigations suggest the explosion was caused by a hand grenade, which was abandoned during the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) insurgency.

The Tuesday
mishap marks the second fatal accident involving leftover ammunition in
Adjumani region of West Nile in less than two weeks after another explosion
killed two people in the vicinity, said the police spokeswoman said.

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West
Nile region has been a center years long of conflict and insurgencies following
the disputes between the government forces and rebels from the West Nile Bank
Front and the LRA across northern Uganda. The friction took a horrific toll on
civilians living in the area.

According to the United Nations data, the LRA killed more than 100,000 people and abducted 60,000
children in a campaign of violence that spread beyond Uganda to Sudan, the
Democratic Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic.