Thousands of Cambodian villagers will be evacuated after two US tear gas barrel bombs from the Vietnam war era were found near a primary school, a demining team said yesterday, reports AFP.
The 200-kilogram bombs are thought to have been dropped by US warplanes in February 1970 against communist forces on Cambodia’s southeastern border with Vietnam.
Heng Ratana, director general of the Cambodian Mine Action Center (CMAC), said villagers, including 200 students, will have to be evacuated before deminers move into the village in Svay Rieng province.