Cambodian plane crash denied

Updated 11.39 Tue May 27 2008
Keywords: Cambodia, crash, plane

A senior Cambodian military official has backed off earlier claims that a plane has crashed in the remote province of Kampot.

Earlier, Kung Mony, Kampot's deputy military commander said, "I can confirm there was a foreign plane that crashed in Cambodia in the province of Kampot this morning."

"I earlier received firm information from the airport that there was a plane crash, but now I cannot either confirm or deny that that was the case" - Kung Mony

However, the deputy commander of the southeast Asian national Air Force has now retracted his statement.

He said, "I would like to make a clarification. I earlier received firm information from the airport that there was a plane crash, but now I cannot either confirm or deny that that was the case."

Further to this another official at Phnom Penh's international airport outrightly denied the incident saying, "We haven't had any plane crash."

Contrary to this villagers in the district said they had heard a loud explosion and since the alarm was raised soldiers and police have been searching the area.

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