Koh Pich Bridge stampede was an unpredictably preventable tragedy that claimed the life of over 400 people and left about many hundreds more injured during the panic stampede on Koh Pich Bridge in the capital city Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Such a tragedy happened in the last day, November 22th, 2010, of Water Festival, one of the biggest traditional festivals in the country. This story shocked the world and was quickly and widely published and broadcaster on most of the media around the world, even just in local newspapers in many other countries besides Cambodia. It was very sad tragedy for all Cambodian, lose relative,lover,friend,son,daughter ...
Regarding the causes of the calamity, some raised by the eyewitnesses. Some claimed that the stampede happened due to a panic that the bridge might collapse since the bridge was packed by the crowd of thousands of people passing back and forth and people might not be aware that it is the suspension bridge that is easily to be swayed, some said it is due to the polices firing water cannon on the crowd just to make them move faster to avoid human traffic jam that this could get some people electrocuted etc.
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