The Associated Press
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia: Six Cambodian villagers, including four children, drowned after their floating home capsized in a river, an official said Tuesday.
The incident occurred at a riverside village in Sa'ang district, about 25 kilometers (15 miles) south of the capital Phnom Penh, said Maing Pech, the district police chief.
He said the house was built on a platform supported by 10 oil barrels. It was also tied with a rope to a tree on the bank of the Bassac river.
The six victims — two adults, aged 35 and 65, and four children aged 2, 7, 10 and 12 years old — were eating lunch when the rope suddenly snapped, the policeman said.
As it drifted away and the residents inside began to panic, the house tipped over into the flowing river, Maing Pech said. All the victims were trapped inside and drowned.
The incident occurred at a riverside village in Sa'ang district, about 25 kilometers (15 miles) south of the capital Phnom Penh, said Maing Pech, the district police chief.
He said the house was built on a platform supported by 10 oil barrels. It was also tied with a rope to a tree on the bank of the Bassac river.
The six victims — two adults, aged 35 and 65, and four children aged 2, 7, 10 and 12 years old — were eating lunch when the rope suddenly snapped, the policeman said.
As it drifted away and the residents inside began to panic, the house tipped over into the flowing river, Maing Pech said. All the victims were trapped inside and drowned.
2 comments:
Hey only youns lived in floating house.Why in hell do you care ,let them drowned. They came to cambodia just to steal our fish.
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