CAIRO: A medical official says a land mine, left over from the Arab Israeli wars, has exploded in Egypt s Sinai Peninsula, killing three teenagers and wounding two others.
Ibrahim Ali, head of the Emergency Unit in South Sinai, says the five were working in a farm near the Suez Canal when the land mine exploded Wednesday afternoon.
He says the bodies of the three teenagers were badly maimed by the explosion while the others were badly wounded.
The wounded were moved to a hospital in the port city of Suez in the mainland.
Egypt estimates that millions of land mines were planted on its northern coast and on the Sinai Peninsula during War World II and its wars with Israel. -AP
