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| The head of Canadia Bank, Pung Kheav Se, speaks to protesters from the Rik Reay community outside the bank's Phnom Penh headquarters in April 2009. The community has refused to accept compensation for the loss of their city-centre land to a housing development project. (Photo by: HENG CHIVOAN) |
November 24 2010
Source: Xinhua
The victims of the major stampede, occurring Monday night on a bridge in Phnom Penh, got donations from the owner of the bridge on Tuesday.
"Nobody expected a tragedy like this would happen, and the control of pedestrian flow will be the main preventive measure we take in the future," said the president of Canadia Bank Pung Kheau Se, who is also the owner of Diamond Island and its bridge, as he came up at Calmette Hospital to show his condolences to the victims there.
The households of the dead each got 1,000 US dollars in cash while those injured in the accident got 200 US dollars each.
Pung said the rescue work taken by the government were timely and well-organized. He also showed his gratefulness to the charity groups and volunteers who came to the hospitals overwhelmed by hundreds of inpatients to help.
According to an anonymous personnel of the hospital, the largest one in the Cambodian capital, they had admitted more than 140 injured people and seen another 140 death cases since late Monday night after the stampede occurred on the bridge of Diamond Island in the last day of the Cambodian Water Festival.
The tragedy killed at least 375 people and wounded another 755 as the overcrowded bridge connecting main-land Phnom Penh to Diamond Island saw a sudden panic. Many were drowned, suffocated or were trampled to death as they tried to flee over the bridge.
The three-day Water Festival, the largest annual festival in the Southeast Asian nation, this year attracted over 3 million Cambodians, many from rural areas, converging to the capital city to enjoy the regatta.
14 comments:
Class action against Pung Kheau Se is in good order.
Kuoy Pichet
Victims families must prosecute PUNG to be compensated because his is the responsable of all of those deaths and casualties.
At least $50000 per death..
Both sides of the bridge poles that hung the cable from one side to other looks similar to the roof of stupa in every Wat. Sometime looks exactly the same crocodile flag pole used when Hun Sen and Pung Kheav Se die.
DON'T CALL PUNG KHEIV SE BAD NAMES! IT'S NOT HIS FAULT THAT THE PEOPLE DIDN'T USE COMMON SENSE! THE BRIDGE WAS JAM WITH PEOPLE AND ONE LADY SHOUTED THE BRIDGE WILL COLLAPSE AND PEOPLE GOT SCARED!
DON'T CALL PUNG KHEIV SE BAD NAMES! IT'S NOT HIS FAULT THAT THE PEOPLE DIDN'T USE COMMON SENSE! THE BRIDGE WAS JAM WITH PEOPLE AND ONE LADY SHOUTED THE BRIDGE WILL COLLAPSE AND PEOPLE GOT SCARED!
Noone wants it to happen.
$1,000 isn't the right amount for someone's life and nor is $200 for a serious injury. The rich elites who suck the blood out of ordinary Cambodians on a daily base spend around $5,000 to $10,000 on any given night at Karaoke Bars!!! I would like to see if any of them would ever get laid in developed countries. The women wouldn't even look at them.
They purposely keep the citizens un-educated and ignorant, so they can exploit them. They will all go to hell...
12:04AM, I agree with you.
The rich elites who suck the blood out of ordinary Cambodians on a daily base .
Corruption in Asian countries is everywhere and normal.
But corruption under Hun Sen regime is to kill Kmer innocent people.
More Khmer being Killed it is good for Yuon .
high ranking officers believ it the riot after informed by drunken police oficers. so they used water cannon to break the riot. electrocution caused more peple to panic and loss conscious during stampede. high rank officers and police must held responsible.
រាជរដ្ធាភិបាលស្វែងរកភស្តាងឃើញអ្នកដែលបង្ករឿងគឺជាបក្រប្រឆាំងពួកអ្នកឯងដើរតែសន្សំរឿងទេគឺធ្វើនេះធ្វើនោះឲ្យតែខ្មែរទាស់ទែងគ្នា
khmer Stockton, CA
NETH SAVEOUN SHOULD INVESTIGATE
បក្រប្រឆាំង
It is not the right time to blame each other.
1000 $ are not the right amount ? Don't think we all wanted to have this kind of accident or tragedy.
Or you still believed, those victims want to be killed for the compensation ?
First of all, they wanted to have some funs and enjoy their free time. Please remembered "Life in Cambodia is very hard and not the haven ?"
good luck this diamond island also own by Hun SEn family HUn Mana...
they will not do anything..
they will walk away...and free ...this is cambodia ..
Ah Choy Mray Pung Khieu Se.
Your Majesty Samdech Ta former King Norodom Sihanouk,
Prime Minister Samdech Hun Sen,
Thank you for your both kindness and understanding.
What we need is prevention methods, not to let this type of accident happen again in the future.
It also makes me very worried to see so much alcohol allowed to enter or be produced in our beloved Kingdom of Cambodia? What about “ YA BA “ and other types of DRUGS from Thailand and Vietnam?
Can His Majesty Samdech Ta and Samdech Hun Sen stop all sorts of drugs coming to Cambodia? The accident may not be related to drugs and alcohol but just some thing that I could not sleep peacefully from now on to the future, in the names sake of true Khmer citizen.
Can Samdech Hun Sen kindly ask all 5 million Vietnamese illegal immigrants to peacefully return to Vietnam, so Koh Pich will not be too crowded more and more every day, every month and every year to come.
All Vietnamese illegal immigrants can easily come in and settle inside Cambodia even though they already have their own country Vietnam.
When Cambodia is too crowded, definitely we Khmer people can not go to settle inside Vietnam, can we?
Please Vietnamese, you said you came to rescue us from Pol Pot, and you don’t want to return home, it is not right according to 23rd October 1991 Paris Peace Agreement, can all of you go back to your country now.
Vietnamese illegal immigrants, you see because 5 million of you are inside Cambodia, it makes us too crowded and we wasted our lives at Koh Pich without good reasons.
Your Vietnamese Communism expansionist mind in Cambodia, is to give an excuse to China mainland to occupy your Spratly Islands, Parcel Islands, the whole of your Eastern sea border and perhaps the Northern border sooner or later.
5 million Vietnamese illegal immigrants in Cambodia, please go back home to defend your country from Chinese mighty economic invasion.
May I pray to God and the Lord Jesus Christ that those who have lost loved one will be comforted.
My condolences to all the victim's family.
Regards,
Kulen Monorom
(The rice farmer's son)
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