Two Die While Illegally Digging for Gold

Two men died in Mondolkiri province’s Pech Chreada district on Sunday after a gold mining pit they were digging collapsed in on top of them, police said yesterday. Provincial police chief Nhem Vanny said that the victims, Sao Leng, 20, and Tharn Kim, 19, had been digging in a pit that belonged to Vietnam-based gold mining firm Gold Metal Group Co. Ltd. …

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