UNICEF deplores deaths of 6 children in Somalia by landmine blast

MOGADISHU, July 13 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has deplored the deaths of six children who were among the victims of a landmine explosion that killed eight people Sunday near the town of Bulaburde, south-central Somalia.

Wafaa Saeed Abdelatef, the UNICEF representative in Somalia, said the children were part of two families traveling in an auto-rickshaw when it struck the landmine.