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PHNOM PENH, May 27 (Xinhua) -- At least six Cambodian people died
immediately and nine others seriously injured when a land- loaded truck
hit head-on with a mini-bus on Monday morning in northwestern Siem Reap
province, police confirmed.
"All the victims were in the mini-bus," Men Chantha, chief of Prasat Bakong district, where the accident occurred, told Xinhua over telephone, adding that the truck driver fled the scene after the accident.
"Among the six dead were a 7-month-old boy and a 2-year-old boy, " he said. The injured people were sent to the provincial hospital soon after the accident.
He said the accident happened on National Road No. 6 when a cow walked across the road and the truck hit the cow and swerved to hit the full-speed mini-bus.
The death toll of road accidents has become the highest in Cambodia, higher than that of HIV/AIDS and mine casualties.
Last year, traffic accidents claimed 1,894 lives, costing the country about 300 million U.S. dollars, according to a report by the Ministry of Public Work and Transport.
"All the victims were in the mini-bus," Men Chantha, chief of Prasat Bakong district, where the accident occurred, told Xinhua over telephone, adding that the truck driver fled the scene after the accident.
"Among the six dead were a 7-month-old boy and a 2-year-old boy, " he said. The injured people were sent to the provincial hospital soon after the accident.
He said the accident happened on National Road No. 6 when a cow walked across the road and the truck hit the cow and swerved to hit the full-speed mini-bus.
The death toll of road accidents has become the highest in Cambodia, higher than that of HIV/AIDS and mine casualties.
Last year, traffic accidents claimed 1,894 lives, costing the country about 300 million U.S. dollars, according to a report by the Ministry of Public Work and Transport.
Editor:
Yang Yi
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