Three children killed by blast in Afghan capital

Three children were killed in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Monday by an explosion of ordnance left over from in the country's long civil war, the Interior Ministry said.

Two more children were wounded in the blast after they knocked the munition against a rock in a residential area that was the scene of bitter fighting between rival Afghan factions in the 1990s, it said.

Landmines and unexploded ordnance kill or maim several dozen people each month in Afghanistan, according to the United Nations. There are millions of unexploded munitions and landmines across Afghanistan dating from three decades of war.