PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - a government investigation Monday's deadly bridge Stampede in Cambodia said victim panic, the bridge began to sway is mounted as criticism of the Government of the disaster.
The investigation on a news channel that serves as the voice of Government found summarized many of the victims from rural areas came and didn't know it was normal to fluctuate, bridges to the associated press and other local and international news agencies, the report followed.
Reuters A police officer on Wednesday lays flowers to victims who died a stampede in the vicinity of a bridge in Phnom Penh.The 8,000 or so people who apparently were designed on the bridge was before the collapse and then panicked, says the report, leads to a desperate battle to escape, that crushed left hundreds of people.
Government could not be reached spokesman, commenting report.
More than 350 people died in the Stampede, although the exact number has been offered less clear officials and conflict related intelligence figures of 351 to 456 dead Wednesday as in previous reports, as Government.Part appeared confusion comes from the fact that many relatives of the victims are home to rural areas, making it more difficult took to imagine a accurate count.
Human rights groups and some residents are increasingly critical of the Government management of disaster, Cambodia's annual three-day water festival occurred during, that the end of the rainy season of the country marked. an estimated two million people down to Phnom Penh for the Festival every year.
This year, tens of thousands of people on an island to the central downtown area, which held a series of free concerts gathered.
Hundreds are dead fears in a stampede on a bridge in Cambodia.Video courtesy of Reuters.Many residents and survivors say there not enough police with the authorities to manage such a large crowd, and that authorities gave it should have insufficient bridge space move people on and off the island.Others say that some victims were electrocuted after police allegedly to dispel the quantity released - repeatedly denied a charge that the Government has water cannon,.
"I want to do the Government further investigation," said Sam Phalla, a 23-year-old restaurant manager along the river after the results of the tests the Government Wednesday heard.
""The Government allowed the people who come to the site - think alot of people - and not in advance via the exit"said Yim Sovann, a spokesman for the main opposition party of Sam Rainsy party which named ist.In elsewhere after a long-time leader of the opposition this disaster officials in free to withdraw, he said, but, that has happened in this case."We need to create a culture of responsibility ", he said."
"The complaint concerns echoed earlier by human rights groups.""Control the failure of the State, the quantity and the damage caused by the stampede is clear," said Asian Human Rights Commission in a statement on Tuesday.
A country is more common in Cambodia public criticism of the Government, that the civil war and chaos, including a period in the 1970s when it a radical Maoist movement known as the Red was ruled Khmer, whose policy resulted in the deaths of 1.7 million people is just recovering from decades.
Drawn by so many years of trouble many residents have renounced during the present Government under the leadership of Prime Minister Hun Sen, and pressure to criticize, although international groups routinely corruption accuse his Government the local Medien.Aber Mr Hun Sen's has Government presided over a stabilising of the economy of Cambodia, an investment boom has led in recent years, and as income increased, many residents in political affairs have become more active - and more willing to complain.
Mr Hun Sen said Thursday a national day of mourning, and the Government provides cash payments in families of the deceased, cover funeral costs and other expenses to helfen.Der inquiry after Wednesday's report include government ministers and officials of the city and was based on statements of witnesses, the associated press said.
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