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Security was tight around a military base in southwestern Cambodia on Sunday, a day after a huge explosion there killed 20 soldiers, wounded others and damaged nearby houses. Guards sought to keep media away from the site in Kompong Speu province. Prime Minister Hun Manet said in a Facebook post on Saturday that he was “deeply shocked” when he received the news of the blast in the province’s Chbar Mon district. It was not immediately clear what caused it.
When he returned to his own house hours later, he found it undamaged but other villagers’ houses had broken windows, doors and roofs, he said. 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 102 F on Saturday.
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