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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Police say
three farmers died in Cambodia after their tractor struck an anti-tank
mine left over from the country’s civil war.
Deputy police chief Noun Muth of the district of Samlot says the accident took place Sunday.
Muth said Monday that three people died instantly and three others were critically wounded.
Samlot
is in a former stronghold of the Khmer Rouge, who ruled Cambodia in the
late 1970s and was an active rebel group through the 1990s.
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.
A similar explosion last week also involving a tractor
in northwestern Battambang province killed six people and wounded two
others.
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