Siem Reap authorities ready to destroy seized weapons

More than 1,000 rifles, machine guns and homemade weapons are awaiting destruction after having been confiscated by authorities across 12 districts in Siem Reap province since late 2015, an official said yesterday.

The weapons were collected by the provincial department of weapons and explosives, which on Monday transported them to a warehouse to prepare them for disposal, said Lieutenant Chhet Nha, chief of the provincial explosive weapons office.

“We collected a total of 982 . . . weapons from all districts,” he said. “Most of them are recycled weapons and were collected little by little from the forest. Some of them were buried in the ground; some were from illegal acts, such as robberies and illegal wildlife shootings.”

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