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Friday 26 November 2010

Death toll from Cambodian stampede: Province by province


People look at pictures of victims of a festival stampede posted on a billboard outside the Calmette hospital in Phnom Penh on November 23. The death toll of a massive stampede at a Cambodian water festival has soared above 450, as the victims' grieving relatives express anger about security at the event.« Read less
(AFP/Hoang Dinh Nam)

By Khmerization
Source: CEN

The government has revised down the death toll from the Koh Pich Bridge stampede on Monday 22nd November from 456 to 347 have died, while the number of the injured has also revised from 755 down to 395.

The last figures indicate that 126 males and 221 females died in the stampede. The death toll, province by province, is as followed:

Phnom Penh City: 66, Kandal province: 66, Takeo: 33, Kampong Cham 38, Prey Veng 37, Svay Rieng 26, Pursat 4, Oddar Meanchey 1, Kampong Chhnang 6, Kratie 2, Battambang 2, Kampong Speu 20, Kampot 9, Kampong Thom 5, Siem Reap 1, Banteay Meanchey 1, Sihanoukville 1 and 29 bodies have been taken immeditately from the hospitals by relatives.

The total death toll = 347

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