Local sources in Takhar say a young man has been killed in an explosion involving unexploded ordnance in the province.
Sources told the Hasht-e Subh Daily on Monday, November 9, that the incident occurred this afternoon at the Muhajireen Mosque in Khwaja Ghar district of Takhar.
According to the sources, a middle-aged man was also injured in the explosion.
The sources said the two men were collecting and trading scrap metal when the explosion occurred. Unexploded ordnance had been mixed in with the scrap metal they had gathered and detonated.
The incident comes a day after a 25-year-old man was killed in a similar incident in Qarabagh district of Ghazni province.
