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2 Cambodian boys killed after war-era rocket explodes

Xinhua, February 6, 2016 Adjust font size:

A war-left B40 rocket exploded on Friday afternoon, leaving two boys dead in central Cambodia's Kampong Thom Province, a local police chief confirmed Saturday.

"The victims found the old B40 rocket in the woods while they went to trap small animals; then, they used rocks to beat on it, triggering the explosion," Pen Sam Oth, police chief of Popok commune, where the accident took place, told Xinhua, citing the third boy, who ran away when he saw the two victims trying to break apart the bomb.

The ill-fated boys, aged 12 and 14 years old, were neighbors, he said.

Landmines and unexploded ordnances killed 18 Cambodian people and injured 93 others in 2015, according to a government report.

The Southeast Asian country is one of the countries that suffered badly from landmines and unexploded ordnances. An estimated 4 to 6 million landmines and other munitions were left over from three decades of war and internal conflicts that ended in 1998.

The country is seeking about 36 million U.S. dollars a year for the next decade to entirely get rid of all types of landmines and explosive remnants of war. Enditem