Sunday, November 27, 2011

Landmines kill 32 Cambodians, injure 116 others in 9 months


   PHNOM PENH, Nov. 27 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia reported 148 landmine casualties in the first nine months of this year. Of the casualties, 32 people were killed and other 116 were injured, according to the report from the Cambodian Mine and Explosive Remnants of War Victim Information System on Sunday.
   The casualties represented the decrease of 33.6 percent compared with the same period last year of 223 casualties reported.
   It recorded that 72 percent of the victims were men, 21 percent were boys, and 7 percent were women and girls.
   Since 1979 to September 2011, landmines had killed 19,608 people and injured 44,346 others. 
   Cambodia is one of the worst countries suffered from mines in the world as the results of nearly three decades of war and internal conflict from the mid 1960s until the end of 1998.
   Cambodia's five most mine-laid provinces are Battambang, Banteay Meanchey, Oddar Meanchey, Pailin and Preah Vihear.
   The country is seeking an estimated 30 million U.S. dollars a year for the next 10 years to entirely get rid of mines.

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