Nov 23, 2010
By Robert Carmichael
DPA
Phnom Penh - 'I tried to help the woman's child, but I couldn't do any more than pick him up and lift him above the crowd so he could breathe,' said 19-year-old Buot Panha.
'That was all I could do,' he said in a soft voice, 'because I was struggling to breathe too.'
Buot Panha was one of thousands of people trapped on a bridge in Phnom Penh late Monday evening. The government said 349 died and 378 were injured in the stampede.
He was speaking at Calmette Hospital, one of eight medical facilities that struggled to deal with the aftermath of Cambodia's deadliest incident in decades.
Two friends sat with him in the central courtyard while they waited for two others who were in a ward recovering from their injuries.
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