Monkey god statue returns from US

An American museum has returned a 10th-century sandstone statue of the Hindu monkey god Hanuman to Cambodia, decades after it was looted from a jungle temple in the civil war.

The meter-high statue was stolen in the 1970s from the Koh Ker Temple site near the Angkor Wat complex.

The artwork, which had been in the possession of the Cleveland Museum of Art in the United States since 1982, was received by Cambodian officials on late Sunday night, an official said.