PHNOM PENH, Jan 12 (Bernama) -- Typhoon Ketsana that hit Cambodia last year cost total damages worth US$284 million, China's Xinhua news agency reported, citing a government official as saying on Tuesday.
Pov Samy, secretary general of National Committee for Disaster Management told a forum on "natural disaster" in Phnom Penh that the typhoon Ketsana that hit eight provinces in the country.
Of which, he said infrastructure, houses and buildings affecting both the state and private ones cost US$153 million while restoration and rehabilitation of these hardwares would need another US$131 million.
Following Typhoon Ketsana hitting this country in late September, the international aid agency Oxfam has warned several times of food crisis due to the flooding that affected the communities in Cambodia.
Until last month, Oxfam estimated that 100,000 people are affected by the floods and 15,000 households are in need of immediate food assistance.
Eight of total 24 provinces in the country were affected by flooding.
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