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 explained.
“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.
Another militiaman, Umar Ari, gave a similar account of the incident, which happened on Thursday.
