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CMAC deminers on Wednesday removed an aerial bomb weighing more than 200 kilogrammes from the ground and which was buried for nearly 50 years in Takeo province’s Donkeo city. Donkeo city police deputy chief Major Long Sarun said yesterday that at about 11am on Wednesday, the driver of a bulldozer, who was hired by a real estate businessman to prepare the land for sale, was excavating the property in the city’s Sala Rokakrao commune, Trapaing Sala Khang Tboung village. Maj Srun said that while excavating, the bulldozer uncovered the aerial bomb, which was buried in five metres of soil. He alerted the businessman who informed the police. The authorities contacted CMAC Team Deminers in Takeo province to remove the bomb. The following day, CMAC deminerts defused the bomb and removed the device to a CMAC safe location in the province. “According to CMAC demining experts, the bomb was identified as a type MK-82 aerial bomb and weighed 230 kilogrammes. It was dropped by US aircraft during the civil war in the 1970s,” Maj Sarun said yesterday. “It is considered lucky that the bomb did not explode,” he said. CMAC Director-general Heng Ratana said yesterday that there could still be many such bombs left in Takeo province, because in the past we have found many MK-82s weighing more than 200 kilogrammes,” Ratana said. “And there are still many such bombs and other cluster munitions left in other cities and provinces,” he said.
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