Khmer soldier injured while trying to save Thai woman from landmine

[geovalin]

A Cambodian soldier and Thai woman were seriously injured after both of them stepped on two separate landmines accidentally in the Cambodian border province of Banteay Meanchey on Saturday. The Cambodian soldier was injured while trying to save the Thai woman who accidentally crossed into Cambodian territory in Kork Romiet commune while collecting fruit and stepping on a landmine and losing her right leg.

 

Major Lon Bunsoeun, Deputy Police Chief of Thmar Puok district, said that the Thai woman named Samrit Rouyrim, 46, a resident of Ta Phraya district in Thailand’s Sa Kaeo province, entered 200 metres across the border in Kork Romiet commune of Banteay Meanchey province’s Thmar Puok district at about 10am on Saturday.

 

Maj Bunseoun said that she stepped on an anti-personnel mine, left over from the Cambodian civil war, that exploded and left her with severe injuries. Hearing the explosion, a group of Cambodian soldiers, who were stationed nearby, immediately rushed to the site to rescue the victim. However, when the soldiers approached the woman, 49-year-old soldier Seng Chhorn stepped on another anti-personnel mine.
 

 

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[billd766]

How sad for both of them.