Death toll 378 in Cambodia from Stampede

by UNCENSORED NEWS | November 23, 2010 at 08:17 am

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The country of Cambodia is faced with deaths that could reach upwards of 400 because of a crowd running through swollen torrential rains and muddy river slides that caused dangerous conditions and a bridge to collapse. While trying to save themselves during a stampede, 378 people were killed and people are mourning this sad accident. Many died and hundreds more are left injured and permanently traumatized. This stampede is considered one of the biggest tragedies in the past forty years.

Rescuers on Tuesday trawled a muddy river for more bodies and Cambodia prepared for a day of mourning in wake of a stampede by thousands of festival goers which left at least 378 dead and hundreds of injured. The prime minister called it the country's biggest tragedy since the murderous 1970s reign of the Khmer Rouge. A panic-stricken crowd — celebrating the end of the rainy season on an island in a river — tried to flee over a narrow bridge in the capital Phnom Penh late Monday. Many people were crushed underfoot or fell over its sides into the water. Disoriented victims struggled to find an escape hatch through the human mass, pushing their way in every direction. After the stampede, bodies were stacked upon bodies on the bridge as rescuers swarmed the area.