Thousands of pieces of unexploded ordnance found buried at Cambodian school

Cambodian authorities have temporarily closed a school after thousands of pieces of unexploded ordnance from the country’s nearly three decades of civil war were unearthed (Cambodia Mine Action Centre/AP)

Cambodian authorities have temporarily closed a school after thousands of pieces of unexploded ordnance from the country’s nearly three decades of civil war were unearthed.

The ordnance was found at Queen Kosamak high school in the north-eastern province of Kratie after deminers were invited to search for buried landmines on the campus before a new building was constructed, said Chheang Heng, the provincial deputy chief for education.