PHNOM PENH, Aug 24 (Reuters) - Torrential storms have killed at least 13 people in Cambodia in the last week, including three struck by lightning, and more heavy rain was forecast, officials said on Thursday.
Flash floods killed eight people, many of them children, in southern coastal areas and eastern provinces along the swelling Mekong River.
A man was killed on Wednesday when his boat sank in a storm on the Mekong, police officials said.
A lightning strike killed a pregnant woman in the northern province of Kampong Chhnang as she walked home in the rain after planting rice.
Lightning killed two people in the eastern province of Kampong Cham -- a 66-year-old man in his home and a young man in a rowing boat on the Mekong, said Sok Savy, the military police chief of the district.
Heavy rain and strong winds flattened several houses in another part of Kampong Cham, killing one man and injuring a mother and her two-year-old child, officials said.
The impoverished southeast Asian nation was expecting more stormy weather. The Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology said a low pressure front would hit the country in coming days which could bring floods to northern provinces.
"There will be heavy rains on the upper Mekong which will raise water levels," the ministry said in a statement.
Flash floods killed eight people, many of them children, in southern coastal areas and eastern provinces along the swelling Mekong River.
A man was killed on Wednesday when his boat sank in a storm on the Mekong, police officials said.
A lightning strike killed a pregnant woman in the northern province of Kampong Chhnang as she walked home in the rain after planting rice.
Lightning killed two people in the eastern province of Kampong Cham -- a 66-year-old man in his home and a young man in a rowing boat on the Mekong, said Sok Savy, the military police chief of the district.
Heavy rain and strong winds flattened several houses in another part of Kampong Cham, killing one man and injuring a mother and her two-year-old child, officials said.
The impoverished southeast Asian nation was expecting more stormy weather. The Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology said a low pressure front would hit the country in coming days which could bring floods to northern provinces.
"There will be heavy rains on the upper Mekong which will raise water levels," the ministry said in a statement.
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