By Ker Munthit
AP
Families held mourning ceremonies in Phnom Penh on Thursday for some of the 22 people, including South Korean and Czech tourists, who died when a plane crashed in a Cambodian jungle this week.
Black-clad relatives of some of the 13 South Korean victims took turns kneeling and bowing their heads before a row of photos of their loved ones at Calmette hospital in the Cambodian capital where their bodies were being held.
The photos, including those of two-year-old and nine-month-old boys, were flanked by wreaths and written messages, as incense burned in a shrine.
At a Buddhist pagoda in Phnom Penh, monks chanted as the families of two of the five Cambodian airline employees killed in Monday's crash lit candles and made offerings in traditional rituals to honour the dead.
"It is utterly shocking for us," Nget Vibol said of the death of his cousin, 42-year-old Ut Chan Tara, the pilot of the plane. He was survived by his wife, 14-year-old son and 7-year-old daughter, Nget Vibol said.
Rescue teams retrieved the bodies of the 22 victims from the crash site in a southern mountainside jungle and flew them by helicopter to Phnom Penh late Wednesday.
The Russian-made An-24 aircraft crashed during a storm Monday not long before it was expected to land at an airport in Sihanoukville on the south coast. The PMT Air plane had been flying from Siem Reap province, the home of the famed Angkor Wat temple complex.
Cambodian officials have said that bad weather caused the crash.
Black-clad relatives of some of the 13 South Korean victims took turns kneeling and bowing their heads before a row of photos of their loved ones at Calmette hospital in the Cambodian capital where their bodies were being held.
The photos, including those of two-year-old and nine-month-old boys, were flanked by wreaths and written messages, as incense burned in a shrine.
At a Buddhist pagoda in Phnom Penh, monks chanted as the families of two of the five Cambodian airline employees killed in Monday's crash lit candles and made offerings in traditional rituals to honour the dead.
"It is utterly shocking for us," Nget Vibol said of the death of his cousin, 42-year-old Ut Chan Tara, the pilot of the plane. He was survived by his wife, 14-year-old son and 7-year-old daughter, Nget Vibol said.
Rescue teams retrieved the bodies of the 22 victims from the crash site in a southern mountainside jungle and flew them by helicopter to Phnom Penh late Wednesday.
The Russian-made An-24 aircraft crashed during a storm Monday not long before it was expected to land at an airport in Sihanoukville on the south coast. The PMT Air plane had been flying from Siem Reap province, the home of the famed Angkor Wat temple complex.
Cambodian officials have said that bad weather caused the crash.
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