Cambodian crematorium workers carry a coffin containing the body of a Czech tourist who died in a recent plane crash, at a pagoda in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Thursday, June 28, 2007. Mourning ceremonies took place in Phnom Penh Thursday for some of the 22 people, including South Korean and Czech tourists, who died when a plane crashed in a Cambodian jungle this week. (AP Photo/Heng Sinith)Friday, June 29, 2007
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Translated from Khmer by Socheata
Among the 16 foreigners who died during the plane crash, 3 of them are Czech tourists who came to enjoy the beauty of Cambodia, but it turned out that they were not able to return back home. What is more touching is the fact that the 3 tourists (including 2 women) are all direct siblings, and that a pair of them are twins (the male tourist and one of the female). According to the list of passenger’s names, the three are: Usala Simona, the oldest sister who was born in 1986, and Usala Zdenek and Usala Katerna, both born in 1988 and are twins. The remains of the three were all cremated at the Preah Puth pagoda in the afternoon of 28 June, as requested by the family of the victims since they have difficulties bringing the bodies back home to Europe. The three have no other siblings. Koh Santepheap reported that the body of the Uzbek pilot is preserved at the hospital morgue pending his family’s decision.
