Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen, right, and his wife, Bun Rany, grieve during a ceremony Thursday in Phnom Penh, the site of this week's deadly bridge stampede.
Photograph by: Tang Chhin Sothy, AFP, Getty Images, Postmedia News
More than two days after hundreds of people died in a huge, tightly packed crowd on the last night of a water festival, both the cause and the death toll remained unclear on Thursday.
Most of the victims were caught in a crush on a small bridge. Rather than being trampled, the victims suffocated or were crushed to death by a dense, immobile crowd in which some people were trapped for hours.
On Wednesday, the government said that at least 350 people had died and that 400 had been injured. But among other tallies on Thursday, a newspaper, the Phnom Penh Post, citing government sources, said the death toll had climbed to 456.
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