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| Southeast Asia |
| 3 kids dead in mortar explosion |
| 2009-03-04 |
| THREE children were killed and five others wounded when a leftover mortar shell exploded in the southern Philippines on Tuesday, a local official said. The children were playing in a rice mill in Buldon town in the southern island of Mindanao when they unearthed a mortar shell which then exploded, said Alex Tumawis, mayor of a neighboring town. Three of the children were killed and five were wounded, two of them critically, said the mayor, who arrived at the scene shortly afterwards. It was not known where the mortar shell came from but Buldon town has been the site of fierce fighting between the military and Muslim separatist rebels. |
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