PHNOM PENH, March 7 (Xinhua) — Seven persons died and one injured in a wooden house fire early Thursday in Mondolkiri province’s Senmonorom town in far northeastern Cambodia, police said.
The incident happened at 2:15 a.m. local time early Thursday at the house of an ethnic minority family in a plot of farmland in the town, Peril Ramming, police chief of Senmonorom town, said Thursday.
“A family including father, mother and five children were killed in the blaze,” he told Xinhua over telephone. “Another woman, who is the family’s relative, was in critical condition while she escaped the fire by jumping out of the burning stilt- wooden house through a window.”
He said that among the dead, four were aged between 2 and 8 years old.
Police concluded that the blaze was caused by a burnt cigarette smoked by the drunken father, he said.
“In their house, there were several containers of gasoline and engines as well as two motorcycles. After he smoked, he probably threw the burnt cigarette nearby the gasoline containers and ignited the fire,” he said.
It was the second remarkable fire incident in Cambodia after the first one happened at a night market in the tourism hub in northwestern Siem Reap province in December, killing 8 people.
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