KHMER REPUBLIC: BATTLE FOR HIGHWAY THIRTY AS FIGHTING FLARES SOUTH OF PHNOM PENH.

Record ID: 1064367

  • Title: KHMER REPUBLIC: BATTLE FOR HIGHWAY THIRTY AS FIGHTING FLARES SOUTH OF PHNOM PENH.
  • Date: 2nd May 1974
  • Summary: 1. GV Smoke rising across river from air strikes 0.05 2. CU 60 mm mortar firing across river 0.13 3. GV Smoke from shellbursts 0.18 4. GV Smoke from shells 0.19 5. SV APC across bridge 0.27 6. GV 155 mm guns being prepared 0.32 7. CU Shell loaded and gun fired (2 shots) 0.45 8. CU Gun firing 1.02 9. SV PAN Troops advancing and passing foxholes (2 shots) 1.22 10. SV Troops carry anti-tank mines 1.30 11. SV Dead insurgent, and soldier looks into foxhole 1.54 12. SCU Brig. General Dien Del talking with Field Commander over map (2 shots) 1.44 13. CU APC firing mortar 1.52 14. GV Shells landing on far side of river 1.57 Initials BB/1648 TH/AW/BB/1713 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 16th May 1974 13:00
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  • Location: SOUTH OF PHNOM PENH, KHMER REPUBLIC
  • Country: Cambodia
  • Reuters ID: LVA83UP5PQ4R8M6FA3C72SSFMK2B
  • Story Text:Heavy fighting in the Khmer Republic this week centred on the industrial town of Takhmau, six miles (10 kms) south of the capital Phnom Pehn.

    While some of the fiercest encounters broke out along Highway Thirty, the road running south along the Bassac River, a handful of shells landed in the city itself. In there days of shelling, 24 people were killed, 62 wounded and hundreds of refugees fled from the town to Phnom Pehn.

    One of the shells fell near the Army headquarters at Takhmau, which has been the insurgents' principal target during the fighting. Meantime, the commander of the Khmer Second Division, Brigadier General Dien Del, was out in the field to witness the fighting along Highway thirty.

    Government troops called in air-strikes by T-28 aircraft to soften up one strategic point held by the insurgents. Following an artillery and mortar barrage, they succeeded in capturing emplacements and weapons.
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