Five children were killed when a disused grenade they were playing with exploded outside Ngala, Borno State, a town that shares the border with Cameroon, militiamen told AFP on Friday.
“The five children picked up the explosive while herding in a field outside the town and it exploded in their hands as they were playing with it,” anti-jihadist militiaman Umar Kachalla said.
“Two of them died on the spot while the other three died in hospital in Mada, inside Cameroon,” he said.In August 2014, the Boko Haram jihadist group seized Ngala along with the nearby trading hub of Gamboru.
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