About 20 police officers burned more than 60,000 marijuana plants spread over 3 hectares on a hill in Kiri Vong district on Monday 17 July, the fourth destruction at the hotspot in two years, deputy provincial police chief Chhun Sareth said.[1][2] The plots belonged to many growers, but no one was at the farm when police arrived, and the crop was watered by 50 tanks.[1] No arrests had been made, deputy district police chief Sao Chanthoeun said, because growers farm shifting mountain plots and do not live there.[1] He said hundreds of thousands of plants had been destroyed in Kiri Vong in recent years, including more than 40,000 cut down the previous February in nearby Preah Bat Chonchum commune.[1]