Cambodia’s prime minister says 20 soldiers have been killed and several others injured in an ammunition explosion at a base in the southwest of the country. Hun Manet said in a Facebook post that he was “deeply shocked” when he received the news of the explosion Saturday afternoon at the base in Kampong Speu province.
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — An ammunition explosion at a base in southwestern Cambodia on Saturday afternoon killed 20 soldiers and injured several others,
Pictures from the scene showed several badly damaged buildings still smoldering, at least one with its roof blown off, and soldiers receiving treatment in a hospital. Other photos showed houses with holes in their roofs. Cambodia, like many countries in the region, has been suffering from an extended heat wave, and the province where the blast took place registered a high of 39 degrees Celsius on Saturday. While high temperatures normally cannot detonate ammunition, they canover a period of time, with the risk that a single small explosion can set off a fire and a chain reaction.
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