PHNOM PENH, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- Final assessment released on Monday afternoon by the government showed that stampede tragedy at Diamond Island bridge was not caused by terrorism or criminal act, but a jam with too many crowded people.
"It was estimated nearly 4 million people during the water festival and about 7,000 to 8,000 people on the tragic bridge at that time, meaning that about 10 to 12 people on one square meter," Prum Sokha, the secretary of state for the interior ministry, and chief of sub-committee on investigation said during a press briefing on Monday afternoon at the Council of Ministers.
"It was too crowded and people walking in opposite directions and the flows of words on electric shocks and about the bridge was about to collapse."
Reason to the accident is too crowded, pushing each other, suffocation, while words on electric shock, a bridge to collapse were at the same time caused to the panic. The authorities were making great efforts to rescue the victims on time.
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"It was estimated nearly 4 million people during the water festival and about 7,000 to 8,000 people on the tragic bridge at that time, meaning that about 10 to 12 people on one square meter," Prum Sokha, the secretary of state for the interior ministry, and chief of sub-committee on investigation said during a press briefing on Monday afternoon at the Council of Ministers.
"It was too crowded and people walking in opposite directions and the flows of words on electric shocks and about the bridge was about to collapse."
Reason to the accident is too crowded, pushing each other, suffocation, while words on electric shock, a bridge to collapse were at the same time caused to the panic. The authorities were making great efforts to rescue the victims on time.
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