ARISH, Egypt, August 12, SPA -- Three Egyptian brothers died in the explosion of a leftover land mine they were toying with near Egypt's Suez Canal, hospital officials said Sunday. The teenage brothers found the mine in a village near the port city of Ismailia late Saturday, officials said on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to speak to the media. The trigger went off after the youths started lobbying heavy stones on the mine, the officials were quoted as saying by the Associated Press. Many land mines still lie unexploded in the zone around the Suez Canal, remnants of the 1956 Arab-Israeli war and the 1967 Middle East war.
