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Article: Five Soldiers Killed in Clashes in Northern Cambodia
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- November 14, 1996
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Six government soldiers were killed and seven others were injured
in two separate ambushes by the Khmer Rouge last week in
northwestern
Cambodia, a local daily reported today.
The English-language Cambodia Daily quoted Undersecretary of
State
Sieng Lapresse as saying that Khmer Rouge ambushed patrols of the
Royal Cambodian Armed Forces (RCAF) in two places in Siem Reap
province's Chong Kal district, some 70 kilometers northwest of the
Angkor temple.
The incidents are the first clashes reported since a split in the
Khmer ...