This photo provided by Cambodia Mine Action Centre shows a deminer inspecting fragments of a decades-old rocket-propelled grenade that killed two cousins, a girl and a boy both two years old, when it exploded Saturday, Feb. 22, 2025 in Kranhuong village in Siem Reap province’s Svay Leu district in Cambodia. - Cambodia Mine Action Centre
PHNOM PENH: A rocket-propelled grenade believed to be more than 25 years old killed two cousins, a girl and a boy both two years old, when it blew up Saturday (Feb 22) near their homes in rural northwestern Cambodia, officials said.
The accident happened in Siem Reap province’s Svay Leu district, where there had been heavy fighting in the 1980s and 1990s between Cambodian government soldiers and rebel guerrillas from the communist Khmer Rouge. The group had been ousted from power in 1979.
