Bulgarian Soldier Dies in Cambodian Battle
A Bulgarian soldier serving with U.N. peacekeeping forces in Cambodia was killed and two others were injured Monday when a grenade hit their vehicle as they rushed to a village under Khmer Rouge attack.
The soldier was the ninth peacekeeper, four of them Bulgarian, to be killed in Cambodia in the last three weeks.
The Bulgarians’ armored personnel carrier was hit by an antitank grenade when it entered a village in Kompong Speu province, 20 miles from Phnom Penh, a spokesman for the U.N. Transitional Authority in Cambodia said.
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