Hanoi (VNA), May 2 -- A technical issue combined with an extreme heat wave was blamed for a series of explosions at a military base that killed 20 soldiers and injured several others in Cambodia on April 27, the country's Ministry of Defence said in a May 2 statement as reported by the Xinhua news agency.
"After a direct probe at the scene, the investigators from the Ministry of Defence found that the incident of the ammunition explosion on April 27, 2024, at the Third Regional Military Command in Kampong Speu province was a technical issue because the weapons were old and faulty, and the weather was hot," the statement said as cited by Xinhua.
The ministry rejected fake news spread by the extremist opposition that claimed the blast was c...