Friday, 04 March 2011
| Among the more than 350 revelers killed in the pedestrian bridge calamity in Phnom Penh were 18-year-old Uch Sotheara and 25-year-old Uch Sophany. Their parents, Uch Yoan and Pa Sophat, marked their late November deaths this week on the 100th day with Buddhist offerings. They were grateful they have other younger children and that the government provided them financial support for their unexpected losses. |
"If my daughters could have survived instead of the money, I would not take the money,'' Pa Sophat, the mother, said at her home. ''Though now, my family and I are grateful for the donation." Crowds on an island grew disastrously during the three-day Water Festival, the Cambodian capital's biggest annual gathering. Hundreds of pedestrians, mostly youth, knotted up on a small bridge on the final night of the festival. VOA Khmer's Pich Samnang reports from Phnom Penh.
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