Market attack
Fifteen people were killed and more than 30 seriously injured during a guerrilla attack on a crowded market on the outskirts of the Kampuchean capital, said foreign medical workers. The attack at Tagmao, a suburb about 10km from the centre of Phnom Penh, was the closest to the capital since Kampuchea’s former rulers, the Peking-backed Khmer Rouge, were ousted from power in January, 1979, by Vietnam’s invasion. — Phnom Penh.
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Press, 6 May 1983, Page 9
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