Experts of Cambodian Mine Action Centre (CMAC) have found about 2,000 shells and 640 unexploded ordnances (UXO) weighing about 8 tonnes on the river basin of Mekong.
In the ongoing operation to clear ammunitions that were dumped in the river during the regime of Pol Pot, 650 ammunitions have been removed from the site at Koh Peamrang village in Peamrang district. The village in the Kohchek commune of Prey Veng province was the hotbed of the violence from 1970s to 1980s.
On Wednesday, a delegation of inter-ministerial committee in charge of underwater unexploded ordnances and CMAC paid a visit to the operation site at Mekong River in Prey Veng province to review the hard mission.
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Source: Khmer Times