PHNOM PENH, Nov. 29 (Xinhua) -- Final assessment released on Monday afternoon by the government showed that stampede tragedy at Diamond Island bridge was not caused by terrorism or criminal act, but a jam with too many crowded people.
"It was estimated nearly 4 million people during the water festival and about 7,000 to 8,000 people on the tragic bridge at that time, meaning that about 10 to 12 people on one square meter," Prum Sokha, the secretary of state for the interior ministry, and chief of sub-committee on investigation said during a press briefing on Monday afternoon at the Council of Ministers.
"It was too crowded and people walking in opposite directions and the flows of words on electric shocks and about the bridge was about to collapse."
Reason to the accident is too crowded, pushing each other, suffocation, while words on electric shock, a bridge to collapse were at the same time caused to the panic. The authorities were making great efforts to rescue the victims on time.
He said that the investigation showed that at nearly 9 p.m. on Monday night, some people were walking in opposite direction on the bridge, and about 30 minutes later, some shouted that the bridge was about to collapse.
More than 2,000 phone calls, giving information on the accident, but only more than 309 witnesses considered producing valuable information about the accident, he said.
The seven-meter-wide and 101-meter-long bridge can load 500 tones, but the number of people on it at that time was overweight, however, bridge is in good condition.
The stampede at Diamond Island's Diamond Bridge killed at least 351 people and injured 394. "They died from suffocation, stampede and dehydration," he said.
"It is a lesson learned and we have to prepare well for the future events," said Sok An, deputy prime minister and chairman of the Diamond Island Casualties Settlement Committee, during the press briefing.
Cambodia's Water Festival from Nov. 20 to 22 is the largest annual festival in the Southeast Asian nation. Around 3 million Cambodians, especially those from rural areas converged to the city to enjoy the regatta.
7 comments:
Yes, there were too many people on the bridge. But why there were that many people? Not enough security. But why there were not enough police?
So if the probelm was that there were too many people on the bridge, then whoever in charge of the security must be punished and whoever cfoordinated the evnent, private or public, must also be punished or held responsible regardless of what had heppned.
Dear Ki-Media:
I would be grateful if we can raise a question for discussion and/or analysis whether Koh Pich's tragedy is a Viet's conspiracy to kill the Khmer race? Please raise it for discussion, analysis, debate to spark more researches and investigations into this case. Can this conspiracy theory be tested or just a real fact? Everything can happen and information can be easily twisted in a country which is under a shadow colony of a foreign country.
Thanks
Hun Sen has more Crimes than any other in Cambodia.
His Crimes Such as :
1)- Brought Yuon to Invade Cambodia.
2)- Created K-5 plan.
3)- Bombast in front of the old ASS.
4)- Coup D'etat 1997
5)- Koh Pich Murder
All these crimes are enough evidences for International Prosecution.
I ask all khmer to file International lawsuit against Hun Sen for his "Axis of Evil" on Khmer People. And make The CASE "OO4" for KRT. backed by United Nation.
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You are the one able to complain to the international community or the UN, because you know so well the international law, before you ask the Khmer people,
The 8,000 people
were so crowded at Diamond Island
bridge.This bridge belongs to
whom?Is it a private or a state own?If the private own,the one who own it must responsible
to pay for the
deaths and injuries;and removed and put in jail.If it belongs to govt,Hun Sen and his administration
must responsible to
pay for them,Hun Sen must remove from power and so his cabinets;then also put them in prison.If Hun Sen and his
clans won't step down,Khmer citizens drug him down.Khmer oversea and in Cambodia
can beat the drums all over the world.So Hun Sen,you can't escape from your evil deeds.
mafia's government to protect his own party. hunsen trying to forgive to his party, acknoledged the incident in spean kmoch.
Believe me, this is not an accident, people. If it was created by the CPP, it would still be the Yourn doing it because they are yourn puppet. There was no stampede, but there was pure killing by cyanide, electricution, and other biological. cyanide dust spray made people fainted and felt to the ground and got step on, and some felt in to the water.
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