Phnom Penh, (Cambodia), April 22 (AP): Ten people were killed instantly when their truck hit an anti-tank mine as they were traveling to their one-time rice fields in northwestern Cambodia, an official said Saturday.
The area of Oddar Meanchey province where the incident occurred Friday was heavily mined during the war between the central government and Khmer Rouge guerrillas in the 1980s, said provincial Governor Pich Sokhin.
The powerful explosion ripped through the group and some body parts were strewn as far as 50 meters (yards) from the truck, the governor said.
He said the all male group included seven farmers, one policeman, a soldier and a provincial civil servant.
"They wanted to see their old rice fields which they abandoned since the late 1970s. They have enough land at their village but they wanted to plant rice on their former land because the land there is very good and they could get a high yield,'' the governor said.
An estimated 4-6 million land mines and other unexploded ordnance from more than three decades of armed conflict continue to maim or kill many Cambodians each year.
Oddar Meanchey province is located about 325 kilometers (201 miles) northwest of the capital, Phnom Penh.
The area of Oddar Meanchey province where the incident occurred Friday was heavily mined during the war between the central government and Khmer Rouge guerrillas in the 1980s, said provincial Governor Pich Sokhin.
The powerful explosion ripped through the group and some body parts were strewn as far as 50 meters (yards) from the truck, the governor said.
He said the all male group included seven farmers, one policeman, a soldier and a provincial civil servant.
"They wanted to see their old rice fields which they abandoned since the late 1970s. They have enough land at their village but they wanted to plant rice on their former land because the land there is very good and they could get a high yield,'' the governor said.
An estimated 4-6 million land mines and other unexploded ordnance from more than three decades of armed conflict continue to maim or kill many Cambodians each year.
Oddar Meanchey province is located about 325 kilometers (201 miles) northwest of the capital, Phnom Penh.
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This seems ah phoeu choeur ah lobb.This monk is a fraud and needed to be defrocked.His practice is entreneurial and unbecoming Buddhist.
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