At least three children were killed and two others critically injured in a blast on Wednesday in Pakistan's northwest Swat, the media reported.
According to Geo TV, the blast took place when the children were playing with a mortar shell in a field in Arkot village in Swat, a district in northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
The police said that the explosion was triggered when the children started throwing the live mortar shell to each other considering it as a toy.
Police said the mortar was fired from an unknown location, which missed its target and did not explode.
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