Thin Lei Win
BANGKOK (AlertNet) – Landmines killed 27 people and injured 92 others in Cambodia in the first seven months of this year, China’s Xinhua news agency reported, citing government figures.
Two-thirds of the casualties were men. The overall number of victims decreased by a third compared to last year when 186 people were killed or wounded in the same period, it added.
Cambodia is one of the most heavily mined countries in the world, due to three decades of war and internal conflict which did not end until the late 1990s.
Xinhua said between 1979 and July 2011, landmines had killed more than 19,000 Cambodians and injured over 44,000.
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