Mysterious excavators cleared protected area

Kampong Thom provincial authorities have confiscated more than two dozen dirt excavators in Stoung district over the past week after the machinery had been allegedly used to dig up land for development in a protected area used primarily for breeding fish. Hang Thol, a military police commander in Kampong Thom, said his forces had cracked down on the illegal destruction of the protected area…

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