PHNOM PENH, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia on Wednesday reported 152 landmine casualties in the first ten months this year, representing a decrease of 36 percent compared with the 236 casualties reported at the same period last year, showed the report of the Cambodian Mine and Explosive Remnants of War Victim Information System.
Of the casualties in ten months this year, 34 people were killed, another 88 were injured and the other 30 were amputated.
It said that 72 percent of the victims were men, 21 percent were boys, and 7 percent were women and girls.
According to the report, since 1979 to October 2011, landmines had killed 19,610 people, injured 35,475 others and amputated 8,873.
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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