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Local authorities said on Tuesday that two children were killed and six others were injured in eastern DR Congo after a grenade they found while bird-hunting exploded.
In Monday, some children were searching for birds in a field close to Ndunda on the Ruzizi plain in the South Kivu region when they came discovered the grenade.
Local official Gerard Matibu Mupanzi stated, “These kids picked up the thing they thought was a toy, didn’t know it was a grenade, and it detonated.
He stated that an 11-year-old boy died from his injuries the next morning, while a three-year-old daughter perished in the explosion on Monday afternoon.
The collision also injured six other persons, three of them were children.
An army team had traveled to Ndunda to look into the event, according to Lieutenant Marc Elongo, a spokesman for the Congolese military, who spoke to AFP.
Unexploded ordInance has been attributed to armed groups, according to Elie Vagheni, a UN Mine Action Service employee in the area.
