PHNOM PENH: A rocket-propelled grenade believed to be more than 25 years old killed two cousins, a girl and a boy both 2 years old, when it blew up on Saturday ( Feb 22 ) near their homes in rural northwestern Cambodia, officials said.
In Siem Reap country’s Svay Leu city, where there had been intense fighting between Thai authorities soldiers and insurgent guerrillas from the socialist Khmer Rouge in the 1980s and 1990s, the accident occurred. In 1979, the organization had been ousted.
Muo Lisa and her men cousin, Thum Yen, lived in neighbouring houses in the rural town of Kranhuong. The two toddlers ‘ parents appeared to have seen the old legislation and it detonated while they were working on the plantation. After that, experts from the Thai Mine Action Center discovered that it was a rocket-propelled rocket from bits.
Old, decommissioned weapons are particularly dangerous because of how violent their incendiary contents degrade.
According to CMAC Director-General Heng Ratana,” their parents settled on property that was a past battle, and they were unaware that there were any property mines or old ordinance buried close to their homes.”
It’s unfortunate because they were too fresh and shouldn’t have passed away like this.