Associated Press
11th August, 2011
Chanting Buddhist monks in Cambodia have blessed a groundbreaking ceremony for a monument to hundreds of people trampled to death late last year in a riverside stampede.
Phnom Penh Governor Kep Chuktema said Thursday that the $120,000 memorial is scheduled to be completed before the anniversary of the Nov. 22 stampede.
At least 353 people were killed and 395 injured when thousands of festival-goers crammed onto a two-lane suspension bridge over the Bassac River and stampeded in panic when it began to naturally sway.
Prime Minister Hun Sen called it the country's biggest tragedy since the communist Khmer Rouge's reign of terror, which killed an estimated 1.7 million people in the late 1970s.
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