Wednesday, December 8, 2010
The Associated Press
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia -- Buddhist monks prayed for happiness and safety Wednesday at a ceremony to reopen a bridge in the Cambodian capital where at least 353 revelers were trampled to death last month in a riverside stampede.
The two-lane suspension bridge over the Bassac River had been closed since the Nov. 22 tragedy, when thousands of festival-goers crammed onto it and panicked when it began to sway, setting off the deadly stampede.
Prime Minister Hun Sen has 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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