PHNOM PENH, Oct 15 — The death toll in an overloaded boat accident in southern Cambodia’s Kandal province on Thursday night had risen to 11, and the rescue mission has been completed, Xinhua quoted officials on Saturday.
Kun Kim, first vice president of the National Committee for Disaster Management, who led the rescue operation, said the rescue efforts ended at 6.15 am local time after the last body was founded.
The accident happened in the Mekong River when the motorised boat, with 15 people aboard, including two boat crew members and 13 students, sank about 50 metres off the shore in Kandal province’s Leuk Daek district.
Kandal’s provincial police chief Chhoeun Sochet said the 11 deceased students comprised eight boys and three girls, aged between 12 and 14, while the four rescued people are two boat crew members and two students.
— Bernama
