Teenagers trigger Russian anti-personnel mine in Izium: City Council clarifies details and number of casualties

The Izium City Council specified that eight teenagers have been involved in a recent incident of triggering a fragment of a Russian anti-personnel mine in the city of Izium. One girl suffered psychological trauma. Source: Volodymyr Matsokin, Deputy Mayor of Izium, on Facebook

Quote: "Eight people have been involved in the incident, including three boys and five girls. Age: 14-17 years old. Seven of them were injured.

One of the girls suffered psychological trauma. [They received] medical help. All of them have been hospitalised at Kharkiv Oblast Children's Clinical Hospital No1."

Details: Matsokin noted that one of the teenagers was carrying a mine in his pocket, "which he found in the village of Sulyhivka." Background: Earlier, it was reported that seven teenagers have triggered a fragment of a Russian anti-personnel mine; all children received shrapnel wounds. 

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