Thousands of war-era explosives found inside Cambodia school


Deminers discovered more than 2,000 explosives inside the grounds of a high school in Kratie province over three days. - PHOTOS: AFP

PHNOM PENH (AFP): Thousands of pieces of unexploded ordnance left over from Cambodia's civil war have been unearthed inside a school in the country's northeast, authorities said on Sunday.

Decades after the brutal conflict and a US bombing campaign starting in the 1960s, the country remains among the most heavily bombed and mined in the world.

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