Three teenage brothers killed by mine

Three Egyptian brothers died in the explosion of a left-over land mine they were toying with near Egypt’s Suez Canal, hospital officials said today.

The teenage brothers found the mine in a village near the port city of Ismailia late yesterday.

The trigger went off after the youths started lobbying heavy stones on the mine, the officials said.

Many land mines still lie unexploded in the zone around the Suez Canal, remnants of the 1956 Arab-Israeli war and the 1967 Middle East war.