Source: Xinhua 2016-02-06
PHNOM
PENH, Feb. 6 (Xinhua) -- A war-left B40 rocket exploded on Friday
afternoon, leaving two boys dead in central Cambodia's Kampong Thom
Province, a local police chief confirmed Saturday.
"The
victims found the old B40 rocket in the woods while they went to trap
small animals; then, they used rocks to beat on it, triggering the
explosion," Pen Sam Oth, police chief of Popok commune, where the
accident took place, told Xinhua, citing the third boy, who ran away
when he saw the two victims trying to break apart the bomb.
The ill-fated boys, aged 12 and 14 years old, were neighbors, he said.
Landmines and unexploded ordnances killed 18 Cambodian people and injured 93 others in 2015, according to a government report.
The
Southeast Asian country is one of the countries that suffered badly
from landmines and unexploded ordnances. An estimated 4 to 6 million
landmines and other munitions were left over from three decades of war
and internal conflicts that ended in 1998.
The
country is seeking about 36 million U.S. dollars a year for the next
decade to entirely get rid of all types of landmines and explosive
remnants of war.
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