HAKKARI - Three children were wounded when a substance they had found in a field near Yuksekova town of Turkey's eastern Hakkari province detonated.
Sources said on Friday that three brothers who are 9, 10 and 12 years old had found a substance in a vacant field near their Kamisli village of Yuksekova and brought it to their house but they were wounded when the substance detonated while they were fiddling with it in the house.
Children were rushed to hospital and an investigation was launched.
(MS) 13.08.2004