(17 Dec 2012)
1. Various of villagers carrying the bodies of Afghan girls killed in a bomb explosion
2. Wide of villagers sitting around the bodies
3. Police standing by villagers
4. Villagers seated
5. Wide of villagers offering prayers
6. Afghan security on guard
7. SOUNDBITE: (Pashto) Mohammad Seddiq, government administrator for Nangarhar province's Chaperhar district:
"12 young girls who were trying to collect firewood outside the village became victims of a landmine explosion and as a result of the explosion nine of them were killed and three of them were wounded."
8. Wide of people walking
9. Area where the mine exploded
10. Close up of a piece of victim's cloth hanging on the tree
11. Close up of a blood stain on the ground
12. Close up of shoes belonging of the victims
13. Wide of villagers burying the bodies

STORYLINE:
Funerals were held for ten girls who were killed by a suspected landmine as they were gathering firewood outside their village in eastern Afghanistan on Monday morning, an official said.
Police said they believed that the device was an unexploded mine that had been laid years ago in Dawlatzai village and was triggered somehow as the girls walked through the open field.
The girls ranged in age from 9 to 13 years old and all came from different families, Mohammad Seddiq, the government administrator for Nangarhar province's Chaperhar district, said.
Two others were seriously wounded and are in critical condition at a hospital, he said.
Afghanistan remains one of the most heavily landmined countries in the world despite years of clearing operations.
Many mines are left in rural areas from the 1990s and discovered only when they are triggered accidentally.

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