The US will return to Cambodia 30 looted antiquities, including bronze and stone statues of Buddhist and Hindu deities carved more than 1,000 years ago, US officials have said.

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The south-east Asian country’s archaeological sites – including Koh Ker, a capital of the ancient Khmer empire – was hit by widespread looting in civil conflicts between the 1960s and 1990s.

Damian Williams, the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, said the items being returned were sold to western buyers by Douglas Latchford, a Bangkok dealer who created fake documents to conceal that the items had been looted and smuggled

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