Cambodia: Landmine explosion kills one in Oddar Meanchey province

A boy was killed and his two younger sisters seriously wounded in a landmine explosion in northwest Cambodia’s Oddar Meanchey province on Sunday, a mine clearance chief said.

Heng Ratana, director-general of the Cambodian Mine Action Center (CMAC), said the blast occurred Sunday morning in Anlong Veng district when the three siblings followed their mother to a cassava farm and the three kids played with a landmine. “The children found the landmine and beat on it, triggering the explosion,” Ratana wrote on social media.