Six children have been seriously injured in a suspected bomb blast in Pader district.
The children– two boys and four girls– all members of the same family sustained serious injuries after an unexploded ordinance exploded where they were playing.
The incident happened on Monday at Libi village, Bur-Lobo parish in Angagura Sub County.
According to reports, the children had found the bomb in a kraal and started to play with it mistaking it for a toy.
The children are admitted at St Marys Hospitals Lacor in Gulu district.
They have been identified as Gipsy Amarorwot, 3, Angel Lagum, 6, and Samuel Lubangakene, 3.
Others are; Geoffrey Gumperom, 1, and Mystica Lamwaka, 2 all children of one, Vincent Komakech.
Lagum, the eldest among the six children said they were playing with the object when it exploded.
Lagum said they wanted to find out what was inside the strange metallic object.
Dickson Ojok, the District Councilor V for Angagura Sub County said the children suffered serious injuries on their chest and thigh.
Mr Ojok said he suspects the object could have been a landmine, a legacy of the two-decade long conflict in northern Uganda which ended in 2006.
