Bomb explosion kills 3 children in Nineveh province.

A mortar, believed to have been left by the Islamic State (ISIS), exploded to a number of children in Bashiqa town, Nineveh province, killing 3 and injuring another, according to a local official. Rafaat Smo, deputy governor of Nineveh, told Rudaw that a number of children played with a mortar in the Kurdish village of Omarqapchi in Bashiqa earlier in the day. The bomb, believed to be left by ISIS when it took control of the area in 2014, exploded, killing 3 children and injuring another. Smo added that the mortar was not spotted before but recent rains may have uncovered it.