Vehicle Carrying Students Overturns Into Pond in Cambodia's Kandal Province, Killing 5 Students
PHNOM PENH — A privately hired vehicle carrying 26 students swerved to avoid a motorbike and overturned into a roadside pond on National Road 8 in Khsach Kandal district, Kandal province, Cambodia, on the morning of November 10 local time, killing five schoolgirls.
The students attended the Prek Ta Mak campus of BELTEI International School. Deputy director general Ly Bunchhay said the vehicle was not a school bus but a private vehicle hired by parents to take students to school. A Xinhua dispatch said 21 others were injured, while the school and Cambodian local media said several students were taken to hospital and the rest were safe; the injury toll awaited confirmation by local authorities.
The school issued a statement expressing condolences to the families of the students who died. The cause of the accident was under investigation.
(Source: Xinhua)
Source: Xinhua
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