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<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span class="">17 October 2013</span>
<span class="">Last updated at </span><span class="">13:22 GMT</span>
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</span><h1 class=""><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">South Sudan child scrap metal diggers blown up in Juba</span></h1><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
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<span style="width:304px">Explosives kill and maim people across South Sudan every year</span></font></b></span><b><font size="1">
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</span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span></font></b><p class="" id="story_continues_1"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Five children have been killed by an old mortar shell as they dug for scrap metal in South Sudan's capital, Juba.</span></p>
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</span><p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The five were looking for metal in an old army barracks, a military spokesman told the BBC.</span></p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span><p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The BBC's James Copnall says unexploded ordnance and mines remain a big problem in South Sudan, following decades of civil war. </span></p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span><p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">There are clear-up operations under way in several areas of South Sudan, but such explosions kill people every year.</span></p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span><p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">The children, aged 10-14, were killed in a former barracks in Juba's Souk Sita district, army spokesman Col Philip Aguer said.</span></p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span><p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">He said that a Ugandan man who was with them, presumably to buy the scrap metal, was wounded.</span></p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span><p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">South Sudan gained independence in 2011 after a long conflict
with the north but it remains one of the world's least developed
countries.</span></p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span><p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">In addition to the explosives left over from the war, rebels
have been accused of laying new mines, particularly in Unity state near
the border with Sudan, our correspondent reports.</span></p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span><p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">This has at times made travel around the area dangerous, he adds.</span></p><p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></p>
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