Fri, 02 Oct 2009
By : dpa
(Post by CAAI News Media)
Phnom Penh - Fourteen people died in Cambodia when tropical storm Ketsana swept through the country earlier this week, Information Minister Khieu Kanharith said Friday. "I don't expect there will be more fatalities from the storm," Khieu Kanharith told the German Press Agency dpa.
The head of the National Committee for Disaster Management, Peou Samy, said another 43 people were injured, some seriously.
He said the wife of Prime Minister Hun Sen would visit the worst-affected province of Kampong Thom on Friday in her capacity as the head of the Cambodian Red Cross to hand out relief supplies to victims.
Other agencies - including Oxfam and World Vision - are also planning to distribute aid in the coming days.
Peou Samy said nine people had died in Kampong Thom province, where 40 houses collapsed. Kampong Thom lies 150 kilometres north of the capital Phnom Penh.
Another three died in Siem Reap, home to the famous Angkor Wat temple complex. Two more were killed in Ratanakkiri in the country's north-east.
The European Union said Wednesday it would donate 2 million euros (3 million dollars) in emergency aid to Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos.
Ketsana made landfall in central Vietnam on Tuesday, causing at least 74 deaths and widespread flooding before heading west into Cambodia.
The storm then headed north in to Laos, where it weakened.
It had earlier caused severe damage and hundreds of deaths in the Philippines.
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