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Land mine explosion kills two Bedouin children in Sinai
By Ashraf Sweilam, AP
Tags: Israel, landmine, Bedouin 

An old land mine killed two Bedouin children in the country's Sinai Peninsula, according to an Egyptian medical official.

Emad Kharboush, from the el-Arish hospital near the border with Israel, says the children, who were cousins, were playing when they stepped on the mine which went off, blowing their bodies to pieces.

The children were identified as Moussa Himdan, who was 13 years old, and
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bdullah Gomaa, who was 14.

The explosion took place near the village of al-Qassima in central Sinai, an area believed to have mines left from the 1967 Middle East war with Israel.

Millions of land mines are thought to remain following Israel's occupation of the Sinai which ended in 1980, after Egypt signed a peace treaty with Israel..

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