October 1, 2012
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Six farmers were killed when their
tractor ran over an anti-tank mine left over from Cambodia’s 1980s civil
war.
District police chief Khum Soy said Monday one of those killed was a
12-year-old child. Two other people were seriously wounded by the blast
in northwestern Battambang province.
He said the group was driving home from a market where they had traveled to sell mushrooms and firewood.
The area around Battambang province was a site of intense battles between the former Khmer Rouge regime and government forces.
An estimated 4 million to 6 million land mines and other unexploded
ordnance still remain in Cambodia from more than three decades of armed
conflict.
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