(16 Jul 2025)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Siem Reap, Cambodia – 10 June 2025
1. Various of prosthetic leg being shaved
2. Wide of survivors speaking with the senior physical therapist at the Siem Reap Physical Rehabilitation Centre
3. Mid of survivors
4. Close of landmine survivors and the therapist's legs
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Siem Reap, Cambodia – 10 June 2025
5. SOUNDBITE (Khmer) Ung Phal, 70, landmine survivor:
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“After the war, everyone including soldiers and civilians, had to look for land to farm. But looking for new land was dealing with danger because it was packed with landmines. No matter how many mines we dug out, there were so many left. The danger was unavoidable.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Siem Reap, Cambodia – 11 June 2025
6. Mid of danger sign indicating a landmine field
7. Aerial of rat working on the deminer line
8. Close of African giant pouched rat sniffing for TNT (Trinitrotoluene) in a demining field
9. Wide of rat working on the deminer line
10. Close of Mott’s helmet as she feeds line to a detection rat
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Siem Reap, Cambodia – 10 June 2025
11. SOUNDBITE (Khmer) Mott Sreymom, rat handler at APOPO:
“I really trust these mine detection rats. I have been working with them for a long time now. While working with these rats, I have always found mines and they have never skipped a single mine.”
12. Close of Mott placing sunscreen on her hand
13. Mid of Mott covering a rat’s tail with sunblock
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Preah Vihear, Cambodia – 9 June 2025
14. Close of handler’s helmet as he feeds line to a detection dog
15. Mid over-the-shoulder of detection dog returning to handler
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Alberto Zacarias, field supervisor of APOPO’s technical survey dog teams:
“Dogs and rats, they are better compared to other animals because they are trainable. They have high capacity of scents, in terms of detection. They are friendly with people and they accept to receive the command from the trainers or the handlers.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Siem Reap, Cambodia – 11 June 2025
17. Close of rat sniffing for TNT in a demining field and climbing on camera
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Siem Reap, Cambodia – 11 June 2025
18. Wide of detection rat demonstration at APOPO’s Visitor Center
19. Close of Mott’s hands as she feeds line to a detection rat
20. Close of mine detection rat sniffing for TNT on landmine field
STORYLINE:
African giant pouched rats are being used to detect landmines across Cambodia.
It's an effort aimed at helping the country achieve its goal of being declared landmine free.
Mott Sreymom is a rat handler for the humanitarian demining group APOPO, which trains and deploys rat detection teams across the world.
These rats have an acute sense of smell that allows them to identify the explosive element TNT – Trinitrotoluene – which is used in most landmines and explosive ordnance.
One of these rats has dete... [truncated]
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