An 11-year-old boy lost a hand and took shrapnel to the face from an old rocket head he found in a field and tossed against a tree stump in Battambang province on Saturday. The land had been plowed and the rocket head appeared. The boy picked it up and threw it against the tree stump and made it explode,” said Chreng Chamruen, the police chief of Chhnal Mann commune in Kors Kralor district
Fonte: cambodiadaily.com
In Cambogia, territorio della Provincia di Battambang, nel distretto di Kors Kralor, un bambino (11 anni), nota tra la i solchi di un terreno arato, una bomba inesplosa. Il bimbo la raccoglie, guarda l’oggetto infine lo scaglia contro un albero, la bomba esplode. Il piccolo è investito dalle schegge dell’Uxo. Il piccolo perde la vista e una mano.
Cambodia remains littered with millions of old mines and unexploded ordnance from those times. They killed or injured 83 people last year, most of them civilians.
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