Most flood-stricken families received relief goods: Cambodia PM

PHNOM PENH, Nov. 14 (Xinhua) -- Cambodia has distributed flood relief items to about 340,000 families with an estimated 1.36 million people so far, the Prime Minister Hun Sen said Monday.
   “Almost all of the flood-affected families have received the relief goods,” he said on Monday during the inauguration of the national road No. 3 on the outskirts of Phnom Penh.
   The distribution would continue until it reached out to all the flood-stricken families of about 350,000 families (1.4 million people), he added.
   Cambodia has suffered the worst flooding in more than a decade since August and 18 cities and provinces have been submerged.
   A number of foreign countries and charitable organizations including Japan, China, South Korea, Thailand, Laos, Singapore, the United States, France, Australia and Myanmar as well as the United Nations agencies had provided flood relief assistance to the country.
   At least 250 people were killed by the floods. According to the reports of the National Committee for Disaster Management, the floods cost the country about 521 million U.S. dollars, mainly the damages of rice paddies and roads.