It’s ironic that administrators are banning football and cartwheels in some playgrounds whilst schools on the other side of the world are playing with bombs during recess.
A mine awareness team in Uganda were horrified to find an unexploded bomb being used as a bell when they visited a school to teach children how to spot bombs, a local newspaper reported.
The Anti-Mine Network organisation saw teachers banging the bomb with stones to call children to lessons in a 700-pupil school in a rural area, the Daily Monitor said.
“Its head was still active, which means that if it is hit by a stronger force, it would explode instantly and cause untold destruction in the area,” Wilson Bwambale, coordinator of the organisation, told the newspaper.
Mr Bwambale said they would explode it in a cordoned-off area.
The Ugandan military has fought two rebel insurgencies over the last two decades and mines and bombs still litter former battlefields around the country.
This is the second bomb that the Anti-Mine Network have found in a Ugandan school in the last six months.
Another was found being used by children at lunchtime as a toy and put away in a storeroom during lessons.
Thankfully no one was hurt. Football in the playground doesn’t seem so bad now. Not that it ever did ….
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