JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — The aid group Doctors Without Borders says a munitions explosion killed seven people and injured a child on Thursday in the South Sudanese state of Unity.
The stockpile of unexploded ordnance was stored in a container in opposition-held Thar Jath and was leftover from clashes between government forces and rebels last year.
Doctors Without Borders said in a statement Tuesday that the container likely blew up after local residents set fire to the grass nearby to clear land for farming.
South Sudan has been at war since December 2013 as forces loyal to President Salva Kiir try to put down a rebellion led by his former deputy.
According to the U.N., land mines and explosive remnants of war are present in all states of South Sudan following decades of fighting.
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