PHNOM PENH: Twenty Cambodian soldiers were killed in an ammunition explosion at an army base on Saturday.
The blast at the army base in Kampong Speu province, to the west of Phnom Penh, also wounded several soldiers, with the army saying that an entire truck of munitions had exploded.
“I am deeply shocked to receive the news of the ammunition explosion incident,” Prime Minister Hun Manet said in a statement on Facebook, expressing his “deepest condolences” to the families of those killed.