Five children were killed when a disused grenade they were playing with exploded outside the northeast Nigerian town of Ngala, near the border with Cameroon, militiamen told AFP Friday.
“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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