THE BIG EVENT OF MOURING FOR STAMPEDE VICTIMS

Cambodia is holding a day of mourning for stampede for 347 people killed, male 126, female 221 in a Water Festival in Koh Pich bridge in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

The Water Festival was held on November 19-23, 2010. Some of the residents living in Phnom Penh have visited at the provinces in Cambodia because they are tired off the traffic jam, and some others were staying in their homes and watched TV for the boat racing in front of the Royal Palace on the Tonle Bassac river.

During the last three days of Water Festival, people were waiting for the result of the competition, and people also would like to join the Big Concert at the Koh Pich Resort. Million people have been visiting over there especially they came from provinces because they have heard that the Koh Pich resort is a beautiful place.

According to the report from two victims have involved that situation were Tout Dina, a grade 10 of BELTEI 8 and Uy Sokha, a driver of BELTEI 8, too.

"After the fire cracker firing to welcome the last day of Water Festival, a lot of people come from the Royal Palace to visit Koh Pich, I am walking on the Diamond Island bridge with crowd of people. Suddenly, I hear some people thought that the bridge is going to break soon because it seems being moved because of overload people. Recently, they push each other to pass the bridge and they run over me so that I decide to jump on the river. A few minute later, I hear a sound as like as the bottle of water explore. There is a man jumping to the river after me, and his head is hit on rock and have died immediately", she said.

Mr. Uy Sokha, a driver of BELTEI Campus 8, said that on Monday, November 22, 2010 at 5:45pm, he and his girlfriend have taken part in the Bayon Concert where is near the NANA casino. They have visited about half hour, and they both have left the convert to have dinner. After having dinner together, his girlfriend has persuaded him to go to Diamond Bridge where is located at the Koh Pich Resort.

'When I entered the Diamond bridge about one column of the bridge, It seems the space is too narrow because a lot of people come from the other places to visit Koh Pich," he said.

He added that he have thought the boys wanted to stay close to the girls and flirted each other so that the space was narrow. Suddenly, he has heard a young girl thought loudly that her old sister was fainted. About five minutes late the same young girl thought again that her sister was out of breath.

"At the moment the weather seems stuffy, and I am difficult to breath because a lot of people have stayed close together. I feel hard to breath, so I try to stand on tiptoes in order to take a deep breath, then I am unconscious two or three time because of not having enough air," he said. He added he has tried to move from the crowds to hang on to the handrail of the diamond bridge, so I was able to escape from the bad situation. However, he is unlucky man because he didn't get the charity from the government for his curing, for he has left home without making record his name in the charity list.