2 sisters killed in mine explosion in northwest Pakistan

Two minor sisters were killed and a boy was injured in a landmine explosion in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, police said.

The incident happened at Meshta village in South Waziristan tribal district when a landmine suddenly exploded in a field where the three children were playing, they said.

The injured boy was immediately rushed to a nearby hospital.

In another incident at Kohat district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, two sisters aged 7 and 5 died due to suffocation on Wednesday night after gas from a generator accumulated in a room where they were sleeping, police said.

A marriage ceremony was going on in the house when the incident took place, they said.