25 Cambodians killed, 89 others injured by landmine in 7 months

PHNOM PENH, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia on Tuesday reported 114 landmine casualties in the first seven months of this year, representing a decrease of 4 percent compared with the same period last year, according to a report from the Cambodian Mine and Explosive Remnants of War Victim Information System.

During the January-July period this year, 25 people were killed, down 7 percent compared with the same period last year, said the report. At the meantime, 89 others were injured or amputated, down 3 percent.

It recorded that 61 percent of the victims were men, 31 percent were boys, and 8 percent were women and girls.

Cambodia is one of the world's worst countries affected by mines as the result of almost three decades of war and internal conflicts from the mid-1960s until the end of 1998.

According to the report, since 1979 to July 2012, landmines had killed 19,644 people and injured or amputated 44,487 others.