An injured Cambodian is carried by police officers and another visitor after a stampede in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Monday, Nov. 22, 2010. Thousands of Cambodians celebrating a water festival by the river in the Cambodian capital stampeded Monday night, killing more than a dozen and leaving the area littered with hundreds of injured. The panic was exacerbated as the crowd rushed to cross a bridge, and some fell into the water. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)
VOA Khmer, Phnom Penh
Monday, 22 November 2010
Cambodia's annual Water Festival ended Monday with more than 300 revelers killed in a stampede, officials said.
Information Minister Khieu Kanharith said the incident took place after thousands of festival goers got caught in a pedestrian jam on a newly-built bridge at Phnom Penh Koh Pich development area. Many fell, were trampled and suffocated to death, police and local authorites said. Most were between the ages of 17 and 25, they said.
Ambulances and police cars raced between the river where the stampede took place and hospitals.
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Information Minister Khieu Kanharith said the incident took place after thousands of festival goers got caught in a pedestrian jam on a newly-built bridge at Phnom Penh Koh Pich development area. Many fell, were trampled and suffocated to death, police and local authorites said. Most were between the ages of 17 and 25, they said.
Ambulances and police cars raced between the river where the stampede took place and hospitals.
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