06 May 2009By Nhim Sophal
Cambodge Soir Hebdo
Translated from French by Luc Sâr
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Fifty people died in the kingdom since the beginning of the year, after they were struck by lightning.
On Wednesday 06 May, Set Vannareth, director of the meteorological department of the ministry of Water Resources, revealed a grim statistics: “Since the beginning of the year, 50 people died after being struck by lightning.” According to Set Vannareth, April and at the beginning of May were deadly. However, the high number of fatalities is normal in the kingdoom. In 2008, 95 Cambodians died from lightning. “May is generally the month with the largest number of storms,” she said in spite of the fact that the authorities’ attempt to prevent this type of accident. A pamphlet was distributed to government officials involved at the meteorological department on the best mean to protect oneself from lightning, and these officials are in charge of alerting the public. However, [given the large number of fatalities,] it is obvious that the pamphlets are not bearing any result. Nevertheless, the authorities still continue to reiterate their warning advises.
Among the old folks, superstition is still rampant: some of them said that Reksa Devy, the angel of the year of the Ox, is very mean and she likes to drink blood. According to these old folks, the angel created these storms, as well as road accidents in some regions in the country, to quench her thirst.
On Wednesday 06 May, Set Vannareth, director of the meteorological department of the ministry of Water Resources, revealed a grim statistics: “Since the beginning of the year, 50 people died after being struck by lightning.” According to Set Vannareth, April and at the beginning of May were deadly. However, the high number of fatalities is normal in the kingdoom. In 2008, 95 Cambodians died from lightning. “May is generally the month with the largest number of storms,” she said in spite of the fact that the authorities’ attempt to prevent this type of accident. A pamphlet was distributed to government officials involved at the meteorological department on the best mean to protect oneself from lightning, and these officials are in charge of alerting the public. However, [given the large number of fatalities,] it is obvious that the pamphlets are not bearing any result. Nevertheless, the authorities still continue to reiterate their warning advises.
Among the old folks, superstition is still rampant: some of them said that Reksa Devy, the angel of the year of the Ox, is very mean and she likes to drink blood. According to these old folks, the angel created these storms, as well as road accidents in some regions in the country, to quench her thirst.
5 comments:
I hope and pray this death lord attack HUN SEN soon!!!
the decision had been made only the time and style still concider!
The white dragon is looking for the urgly dirty faked dragon!
Your time is comming!!!!!!
it is okay for people to have their own belief or whatever, however, also understand the real nature of lightning and how it was recreated from in the first place will help everyone to take precautionary action in order to be safe from its death strike. lightning knows no discrimination; it can strike on anyone any time during a thunderstorm. i think if the death toll continue to be risened, cambodia should look into building lightning rods to absorb the power from negative and positive electrical charges that recreated lightning in the first place naturally. i'm sure lightning happened all over the entire globe, but other countries had invented or came up with lightning rods or other ways to protect their people from lightning strike, so naturally cambodia ought to learn from other countries to see how they are doing it. of course, death from lightning strike is nothing new for cambodia nor anywhere else in the world. so only taking action to correct and prevent it from killing people is the solution. thank you and god bless cambodia.
Lightning is searching for Lord Huynh Sen. Until then, it will never stop. In the mean time, my prayer goes out to the victim of circumstances.
Hok Lundy.....
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