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Cambodia: Five people killed by UXO explosions

Type of event:
UXO - Unexploded ordnance

Victims

5

Wounded

2

Date

April 22, 2024

What happened

According to the head of the country’s demining agency, two separate blasts of unexploded ordnance (UXO) killed five people and injured two others. The first event hit a family that went to the forest to collect resin in the province of Mondulkiri: a grenade exploded from a handheld B-41 rocket launcher killing four people and wounding two others.
Later, another man was killed in the town of Sihanoukville by the explosion of a 105-mm artillery shell. No further details of the incident could be provided at this time.


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