Two Cambodian toddlers killed in old grenade blast


A deminer from the Cambodian Mine Action Centre carrying an unexploded ordnance in Svay Rieng province on Feb 11, 2025. - Photo: AFP

PHNOM PENH: Two Cambodian toddlers died when a rocket-propelled grenade believed buried since the country’s civil war blew up near their homes, an official said on Sunday (Feb 23).

The explosion happened on Saturday (Feb 22) in a remote village in north-western Siem Reap province that was once a battle site for Cambodian government soldiers and Khmer Rouge fighters in the 1980s and 1990s.

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