{"id":1999791,"date":"2023-08-14T08:24:06","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T12:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/high-school-closed-after-deadly-secret-found-buried-near-the-building\/"},"modified":"2023-08-14T08:26:28","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T12:26:28","slug":"high-school-closed-after-deadly-secret-found-buried-near-the-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/high-school-closed-after-deadly-secret-found-buried-near-the-building\/","title":{"rendered":"High school shut down due to deadly secret discovered nearby."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhigh-school-closed-after-deadly-secret-found-buried-near-the-building%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1999791&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Cambodian High School Temporarily Closed After Discovery of\u200b Deadly Secret<\/h2>\n<p>In a shocking turn of events, Cambodian authorities have made the decision to temporarily close a high school in the northeastern province of Kratie. The reason? Thousands of pieces of unexploded\u200d ordnance from the country&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/syria-elected-to-world-health-organization-executive-board-despite-human-rights-abuses\/\" title=\"Syria Elected To World Health Organization Executive Board Despite Human Rights Abuses\">devastating civil war<\/a>\u2064 have been unearthed on the school grounds.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery was made when de-miners were \u200dcalled in to search for buried landmines before \u200bthe construction of a new building. To their horror, they stumbled upon a cache of explosives that had\u200b been hidden \u2064for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Queen Kossamak\u2062 high school, which is \u2062attended by over 1,000 students, was once an ammunition warehouse during the \u200bmurderous Khmer Rouge regime in the 1970s. It was later converted into a school, with \u200bthe\u200c belief that all the ordnance had been removed. Unfortunately, \u2062this turned out to be far from the truth.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Cambodia: Thousands of\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/high-school-closed-after-deadly-secret-found-buried-near-the-building\/\" title=\"High school shut down due to deadly secret discovered nearby.\">war-era explosives found buried<\/a> \u200bat high school <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eQXgXtn9pl\">https:\/\/t.co\/eQXgXtn9pl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCWorld\/status\/1690826625519149057?\">August \u206213, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Over the course of three \u2062days, de-miners from the Cambodian Mine Action Center collected a staggering 2,116 pieces \u200cof ordnance, including M79 grenades, \u200bFuzeM48 shells, and ammunition for \u200dthe B40\u200d rocket launcher. Photos shared on social media showed the dirt-covered items lined up on the school&#8217;s campus.<\/p>\n<p>However, it is \u200dbelieved that there are \u2064still many more dangerous explosives buried beneath the surface. As a result, the school will remain closed\u200c while de-miners work tirelessly to collect the remaining material.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know that this school site used to be a big ammunition warehouse \u200bof the Khmer Rouge in the late 1970s, but I could not believe that there was a huge amount of ammunition buried underground like this,&#8221; said Chheang \u200bHeng, the provincial\u200d deputy chief for\u2064 education. &#8220;How many casualties would have \u200bhappened if this ammunition exploded?&#8221; \u2062he added.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Deminers?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Deminers<\/a> discovered more than 2,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/explosives?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#explosives<\/a>, including more than 1,000 M79 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/grenades?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#grenades<\/a>, inside the grounds of a high <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/school?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#school<\/a> \u200b in Kratie province over three days, said Mr. Heng Ratana, director-general of the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Cambodian?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Cambodian<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Mine?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Mine<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Action?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Action<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Centre?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Centre<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Cambodia?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Cambodia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Dk7hr1cuko\">pic.twitter.com\/Dk7hr1cuko<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 UK Tutoring Services (@TutorCambodia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TutorCambodia\/status\/1690869581798326272?\">August \u200c13, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The \u200bKhmer Rouge&#8217;s brutal rule in\u200b the 1970s resulted in the deaths of an estimated 1.7 \u200bmillion Cambodians due\u2064 to starvation, illness, and execution. Although the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-signs-juneteenth-national-independence-day-act-into-law-marking-americas-newest-national-holiday\/\" title=\"Biden Signs Juneteenth National Independence Day Act Into Law, Marking America\u2019s Newest National Holiday\">civil war ended<\/a> in\u2062 the late \u200d1990s, the country is still plagued by the remnants of the conflict. It is estimated that Cambodia is littered with 4 to 6 million landmines and other ordnance.<\/p>\n<p>While significant\u2063 progress has been made\u2064 in clearing these deadly explosives,\u2063 they continue to claim\u200b lives. Since the end of the fighting, nearly \u200b20,000 \u2064people have lost their \u2063lives, \u200band approximately 45,000 \u200chave been injured by leftover war ordnance. However, the average annual \u200ddeath toll has decreased from several thousand to \u200cless than 100.<\/p>\n<p>The Cambodian government has set a goal to clear all the nation&#8217;s remaining landmines and\u200c unexploded ordnance by 2025, in an effort to protect its citizens from further harm.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic\">The Western Journal has reviewed this Associated Press story and may have altered\u200d it prior to publication to ensure that it meets\u200d our editorial standards.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ap-thousands-pieces-unexploded-ordnance-found-buried-ground-cambodian-school\/\">High School Closed After \u2063Deadly\u200d Secret Found \u200bBuried Near the Building<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western \u2062Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cambodian authorities shut down a high school in Kratie province temporarily due to the discovery of numerous unexploded ordnance from the country&#8217;s long civil war. De-miners were called in to search for buried landmines on the campus, leading to the uncovering of thousands of dangerous items.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":1999792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[548],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1999791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conservative-news-daily"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1999791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1999792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1999791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1999791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1999791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}