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Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>The Mozambican police deactivated on Saturday a grenade children found in central Mozambique, a source from the corporation told Lusa on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The device was found by children who were climbing a rock formation in Magige, Guru\u00e9 district.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe grenade was hidden in a hole,\u201d suspecting that \u201csomeone during the civil war [from 1976 to 1992] kept it there,\u201d Sidner Lonzo, spokesman for the Zambezia provincial command told Lusa.<\/p>\n

The description given by the children allowed the authorities to deactivate it without causing damage.<\/p>\n

The police dealt with another similar case in the same province earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Children and a group of peasants were working on farmland when they found two mortars, also deactivated without damage, the spokesman explained.<\/p>\n

Lost, unexploded explosive devices are a legacy of times of conflict.<\/p>\n

Mozambique declared itself free of anti-personnel mines in 2015, after more than two decades of a nationwide demining programme, which at the time was one of the five most threatened in the world.<\/p>\n

However, incidents with devices continue to happen in central Mozambique.<\/p>\n

The most serious recent case happened in September 2020, when seven people were killed after an explosive device went off in Pebane district.<\/p>\n

Months earlier, in March, three children were killed in a field after a mine was triggered by a hoe in Morrumbala district.<\/p>\n

In November of the same year, one child was killed and three others escaped with injuries, victims of what was reportedly a war mine left behind in a vegetable garden in Moatize.<\/p>\n

Other mines were detected in Namacurra district and deactivated without damage, thanks to reports from residents.<\/p>\n

In the previous year, in 2019, in the central province of Zambezia alone, the authorities deactivated a total of seven mines, most found on land that is now next to housing.<\/p>\n

For More News And Analysis About Mozambique<\/a> Follow Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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