20 Cambodian soldiers killed in ammunition base explosion |. The Cambodian soldiers have been killed in an ammunition explosion at an army base, Prime Minister Hun Manet said on April 27.
The blast at around at the army base in Kampong Speu province to the west of the capital also wounded several soldiers, according to the PM, 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,” Hun Manet said in a statement on Facebook, expressing his “deepest condolences” to the families of those killed.