Phnom Penh Post - Reports of explosion greatly exaggerated
The trail went cold for capital cops and reporters investigating rumours of an explosion yesterday at an ice-making factory in Choam Chao commune after they arrived to find nothing amiss.
Getting word from a villager, police were perplexed when they got to the scene where a worker declared the story was fake news; he said there was no blast, and the minor gas leak had already been repaired.
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