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Tuesday 23 November 2010

At least 339 die in Cambodian stampede: PM

Wouded and dead bodies in the corridor of the hospital.



Reuters November 22, 2010
The Montreal Gazette

Military police examine a bridge where a stampede took place in Phnom Penh November 23, 2010. At least 180 people were killed in the stampede on the bridge during a water festival in Cambodia's capital Phnom Penh, the country's prime minister said on television on Tuesday.Photograph by: Chor Sokunthea, Reuters

PHNOM PENH — The death toll from a stampede on a bridge in Cambodia’s capital killed rose to at least 339 people with nearly just as many wounded, the prime minister said on Tuesday.

Most of the victims were crushed or drowned, after thousands panicked late on Monday when several people were electrocuted while celebrating the end of an annual water festival.

Prime Minister Hun Sen apologized on television for the disaster.

State television said two hospitals reported 278 were killed, among them 240 women.

Many people died after leaping from the bridge across a tributary of Tonle Sap river in Phnom Penh, authorities said.

"This is the biggest tragedy since the Pol Pot regime," Hun Sen said in a live television broadcast early Tuesday, referring to the leader of the brutal regime that ruled between 1975 and 1979.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

What the fuck does this has to do with Pol Pot or Khmer Rouge? This is a fucking accident, stop making any connection that involve the death of Cambodians with Pol Pot or Khmer Rouge.