Cambodia Stampede Kills Hundreds
Cambodia Stampede Kills Hundreds : At least 349 people were killed in a stampede in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh late Monday during the last hour of the last day of Cambodia’s Water Festival. Witnesses in the capital said the stampede began Monday night when people panicked in a dense crowd on a small island close to the shore of the Bassac River. Many people at the sides jumped into the river to escape the stampede, and as day broke, searchers began looking for anybody who might have drowned. Azuriel provides an eyewitness account of what happened during that tragic night: …we were just about to cross back to the mainland from the island when the stampede started, and police started cordoning the area off ... total chaos' prolly the best way to describe it ... spent most of my 4 hours trying to help out, inclusing performing CPR on 4 girls that got fished out of the river ... unfortunately only managed to revive 2 of them ... Sad( ... of the other 2, only 1 had a pulse when t...