Bangkok – Three people were killed and several other wounds when they were run over by lightning while visiting the famous Cambodian Angkor that Temple complex. They had been looking for shelter around the main temple of the Unesco World Heritage site when the ray hit on Friday afternoon.
The video posted on social networks showed two ambulances that arrived later and the spectators and site officials carried out by injured people and helped others on foot. Other images showed several people treated in the hospital.
The day after the incident, the Minister of Tourism of Cambodia, Hout Hak, issued a statement that tells people to eliminate online positions in this regard, saying that the dissemination of “negative information” could damage the tourism sector of the country.
The authorities have not published information about the incident, but an official on Monday, they speak of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the problem, confirmed to The Associated Press that three people, all Cambodians, were killed in the lightning strike.
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The Cambodian Red Cross also published an update that said he had delivered packages of attention to the families of two of the victims, a 34 -year -old man and a 52 -year -old woman. The Red Cross refused to comment more on the phone.
A spokesman for Angkor what a site He did not respond to requests for comments, nor a regional health officer.
The Cambodian government under the prime minister, his malet, maintains tight information control, and has been accused of rights groups on the use of the judicial system to process critics and political opponents.
His Manet in 2023 successfully successful his SEN, who was widely criticized for the suppression of freedom of freedom or speech, his almost four decades of autocratic government.
Angkor What is the best known tourist attraction of Cambodia, attracting about 2.5 million visitors annually, and also appears in the country’s flag?
Unesco calls the site, which extends through about 155 square miles and contains the capitals of the Jmer Empire from the ninth to the 15th century, one of the most important archaeological sites in Southeast Asia.
Cambodia has been developing the area to attract more visitors, including the opening of a new airport financed by the Chinese of $ 1.1 billion in the nearby Siem Reap.
However, his move to relocate about 10,000 in family squats in Angkor in which area to a new settlement has generated generalized criticisms of human rights groups, and UNESCO ITSEFT has expressed Conern.
The Cambodian authorities have said that families were being voluntarily relocated, but Amnesty International and others have questioned how volunteers have been relocations.
