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- From: Nhan Tran <tran@PEORA.SDC.CCUR.COM>
- Subject: CAM: 2 new casualties
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- 01/15
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- U.N. REPORTS TWO NEW CASUALTIES FROM CAMBODIAN ...
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- PHNOM PENH (JAN. 15) DPA - Two new Cambodian casualties confirmed in a United
- Nations report bring to three dead and six wounded the casualty toll from an
- attack on an UNTAC location in northeast Siem Reap province on January 12, a
- U.N. spokesman said Friday.
- Two Cambodian girls aged seven and 17 sustained bullet wounds from the
- attack by 40 unidentified armed assailants on the U.N. Transitional Authority
- in Cambodia facility, the spokesman said.
- Two Cambodian U.N. personnel died, a Ghanaian and an Indian - both members
- of the civilian police - were wounded, a 72-year-old local man hurt and his
- daughter aged seven were killed during the 30-minute attack in which rocket and
- small arms fire were used.
- "It is still unclear why this attack occurred on the night of the 12th to
- the 13th of January and who perpetrated it," the spokesman said.
- In eastern Pursat province earlier this week an office of the royalist
- FUNCINPEC party was rocketed and hit by 30 rounds. Four people were wounded.
- All were recovering in hospital, the spokesman said.
- A rocket-propelled grenade was fired near a FUNCINPEC party office in the
- provincial capital of northwest Battambang province and three suspects were
- later arrested by local authorities, he said.
- In another attack Thursday, the Buddhist Liberal Democratic party office in
- Battambang took five rounds of fire but no casualties were reported, he added.
- Two weeks ago Khmer Rouge guerrillas fired 80 mortar rounds on an UNTAC
- electoral team and Bangladeshi peacekeepers in Siem Reap province some 40
- kilometres northeast of Tuesday night's attack.
-