‘Old bombs still a threat to people’

Still dangerous: A file pic showing the bomb after it was uncovered from a river bed opposite the Royal Palace in Phnom Penh. — AFP

Half a century on, war-left US aerial bombs are still posing threats to Cambodian people’s daily lives, an academic said.

On Thursday, a Cambodian Mine Action Center (CMAC)’s bomb expert team safely removed an unexploded US made AN-M66 aerial bomb, weighing 900kg and containing roughly 450kg of explosives, from the Chaktomuk riverbed near the Sokha Phnom Penh Hotel opposite the Royal Palace here in the capital.