Four children die in blast

Four children die in blast

KEBUMEN, Central Java: Four children died after a mortar they
found and had been playing with exploded Saturday afternoon.
Another child in the village of Setrojenar was seriously wounded
in the blast.

The mortar took the lives of Nur Hamim, 15, who found the
mortar, two-year-old Mafuri, five-year-old Setiadi, and Afif, who
was eight. Wahyudi, two, is currently being treated at Bethesda
Hospital in Yogyakarta.

Police said the location where the mortar was found was once
used as a war games site for the Armed Forces, which closed off
the area due to mortars buried there. No other information was
available. (wah/har/12)