Two children killed, four wounded, in Kabul blast

Two children were killed and four wounded in Afghanistan today when an old tank shell exploded at a military barracks in Kabul .

The victims were playing on the grounds of an old, bombed-out military barracks currently used by the Afghan army as a base, said Ali Shah Paktiawal, a police official.

Afghanistan is littered with mines and ordnance from 30 years of war, and Afghans are frequently hurt after accidentally setting the explosives off.