Growing danger as deminers find three landmines on tree

Risky task: A deminer searching for landmines in a forest in northwestern Banteay Meanchey Province. — AFP

Cambodian deminers have discovered three anti-personnel landmines from the country’s civil war in a tree trunk, an official said.

Millions of landmines were laid in Cambodia during the country’s nearly three-decade civil war, which ended in 1998, causing tens of thousands of casualties.