Cambodian authorities have temporarily closed a high school where thousands of pieces of unexploded ordnance from the country’s nearly three decades of civil war have been unearthed.
The ordnance was found at the school in the northeastern province of Kratie after de-miners were invited to search for buried land mines on the campus before a new building was constructed, said Chheang Heng, the provincial deputy chief for education. More than 1,000 students study at Queen Kossamak high school.
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Source: The Phnom Penh Post
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