(MENAFN) Three child shepherds were killed in western Iraq on Sunday when one of them stepped on a roadside bomb planted by the Islamic State (IS) group, local officials said.
"Three children were killed today by a leftover improvised explosive device planted by the Daesh organisation north of al-Baghdadi," said the mayor, Sharhabeel al-Obeidi, using an Arabic acronym for IS.
He said the victims, aged between nine and 13, were herding sheep when the bomb exploded under them, just north of al-Baghdadi, about 180km northwest of Baghdad.
"They died on the spot. A police unit went to the site of the explosion and brought their bodies to the morgue," a local police major said.
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