At least 10 girls were killed and two others injured in a bomb blast in the east of Afghanistan on Monday, official said.
Afghan police said that the girls, aged from around nine to 13, were gathering firewood outside of Dawlatzai village in Nangarhar province’s Chaperhar district when the explosion went off.
He said that it is not clear what caused the bomb to go off and that two other girls were seriously wounded and are in a critical condition in hospital.
Police could not say if the blast came from a newly planted bomb or from an unexploded mine many of which are still found in fields and rural areas from decades of conflict in the country.
Police are scouring the area for clues as to what type of explosive went off.
