Schoolboys dead by explosion East Ukraine

Three schoolboys were killed in the east of Ukraine by an explosion of a landmine.

The boys between thirteen and fifteen years of age were all at the same school in Horlivka, a city controlled by the separatists. A fourth ten-year-old boy was wounded by the explosion. He is being treated in hospital, reported Mayor Ivan Prikhodko of Horlivka.

In 2014, fighting broke out between Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine and troops loyal to the pro-Western Ukrainian government in Kiev. Despite an international brokered ceasefire, there are often revivals of battles.

According to the UN, the conflict has claimed a total of more than ten thousand lives. Regularly, victims fall through landmines.