war had, you know, left

unexploded um ordinances or basically unexploded bombs not so much landmines but you know like mortar shells or barrel bombs that were dropped and never blew up right buried in the sand it was kind of typical i guess a quiet day the late morning um and um There was an explosion and we're like, oh man, the town's getting attacked.

What's going on? So we're trying to find out what was going on, talking to neighbors and finding out what was going on at the hospital, which was just a short drive away from where I was in the office.

And Anyway, what we had come to find out, the explosion was from, there was 12 kids that had found a mortar shell And they, this was the story that was told by bystanders.

The kids were playing with the mortar shell and they were banging on it.

And the explosion was the mortar shell going off.

And so the kids that were immediately around the shell, um, eight of them died instantly.

Like after all of the logistics were over, what were some feelings that you had surrounding their deaths?