DPA
Phnom Penh - Two sisters were killed by lightning in Cambodia, bringing the year's reported death toll to 50, local media reported Monday.
The teenagers were tending their family's cattle in a rice field in the southeastern province of Kampong Cham late last week when they were struck, the Cambodia Daily newspaper reported.
"We are noting the increase in lightning deaths, and our senior officials are paying attention to the issue," said Keo Vy, deputy director of the National Committee of Disaster Management.
"It could be a result of climate change."
Lightning last year killed 140 people in Cambodia, up from 95 recorded deaths in 2008.
The teenagers were tending their family's cattle in a rice field in the southeastern province of Kampong Cham late last week when they were struck, the Cambodia Daily newspaper reported.
"We are noting the increase in lightning deaths, and our senior officials are paying attention to the issue," said Keo Vy, deputy director of the National Committee of Disaster Management.
"It could be a result of climate change."
Lightning last year killed 140 people in Cambodia, up from 95 recorded deaths in 2008.
6 comments:
Karma Karma Karma../
Almightly lightning why you kill khmer poor people??? Why not Hun Sen who makes khmer suffer even more nowaday. The poor lost their land they lost their freedom... Why don't the Almightly strike Hun Sen instead????
12;01pm.
We are believing in fate, aren't we? Don't wish others to be killed or suffer, because Karma will fall upon each everyone of us.
Hun Sen will die in what way we don't know but all of us will go.
Yuon did too many killing against Khmers will receive Karma the same as our ancestors did to others.
Be realistic men. We should advice people to avoid lightning. It is natural phenomenon. The goverment needs to do more to provide people necessary information on how to protect themselves from lightning.
That's not fair! Why not striking those officials?
12:01 PM
It's our prime minister's ineluctable
destiny to lead his country and its people until in his late 90s.
Long live the prime minister!
Pi Anh
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