November 24, 2010
Martin Petty and Prak Chan Thul
Reuters
PHNOM PENH: Buddhist monks chanted as onlookers gazed silently across a bridge piled with the shoes and torn clothing left by victims of a stampede in Cambodia's capital here.
The body count stood at 375 yesterday and was expected to rise. About 755 people were injured and many people are missing.
The stampede on the Diamond Gate bridge occurred late on Monday, the last day of the yearly three-day Water Festival marking the end of the rainy season.
"Everyone is shocked that this can happen to us," said Chhun Sreypong, 45, clutching her baby and looking across Phnom Penh's river, the Tonle Sap, from which scores of bodies were dragged.
"Most of those who died were youngsters."
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