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2 Cambodian experts were killed as they attempted to remove an anti-tank mine from a rice field

Two Cambodian deminers were killed while removing an anti-tank mine in Oddar Meanchey Province on Thursday, according to authorities.
The Cambodian Mines Action Center reported that Pov Nepin and Ouen Channara died at the scene after the mine exploded.
Since the end of fighting in 1998, nearly 20,000 people have been killed and about 45,000 injured by leftover war explosives.
The International Campaign to Ban Landmines reported that casualties from unexploded ordnance dropped from 858 in 2000 to 32 in 2023.

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South China Morning Post

Cambodia extends mine-free deadline after villager, 2 deminers killed

The villager ‘ran over an anti-tank landmine’ on his farm in northwestern Battambang province.

1 month ago·Hong Kong

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2 Cambodian experts were killed as they attempted to remove an anti-tank mine from a rice field

Cambodian authorities say two deminers were killed as they attempted to remove an anti-tank mine left over from the country’s nearly three decades of war and disorder.

1 month ago·United States

Two Cambodian deminers killed by anti-tank mine

Two Cambodian deminers were killed while trying to remove a decades-old anti-tank mine from a rice field that was once a battlefield between government forces and Khmer Rouge soldiers, officials said. The two deminers were killed Thursday by “an old brutal hidden killer” while clearing mines in northwestern Oddar Meanchey province, the government’s Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) said in a statement. “This is the loss of professional experts…

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Morning Express

Mine exploded during clearance in Cambodia, 2 people died

Sheet Khmer Times Today, January 17, citing an announcement from CMAC, two deminers, Pov Nepin and Oeun Chandara, died while clearing a minefield more than 82,500 m2 wide.2. This minefield is classified as an old road minefield and the remaining mines there were placed by Pol Pot’s forces between 1982 and 1989, according to Khmer Times. Photo of two demining staff Oeun Chandara (top right) and Pov Nepin with the scene of the explosion in Oddar …

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