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Thousands of Khmer Rouge-era munitions recovered from Cambodia high school

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The brutal rule of the radical communist Khmer Rouge was blamed for the deaths of an estimated 1.7 million Cambodian from starvation, illness and killing before being ousted by a Vietnamese invasion

This handout photo released by the Cambodian Mine Action Centre shows unexploded ordnance unearthed inside a school in Cambodia's Kratie province. Photo: AFP

The ordnance was found at the school in the northeastern province of Kratie after deminers were invited to search for buried landmines on the campus before a new building was constructed, Chheang Heng, the provincial deputy chief for education. More than 1,000 students study at Queen Kossamak high school.

From Friday through Sunday, 2,116 pieces of ordnance were collected by deminers from the Cambodian Mine Action Centre, the government agency's director general, Heng Ratana, posted on Facebook

 

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