345 dead-trampled to death FESTIVAL

SCENES OF HORROR IN CAMBODIA. HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE WERE TRAMPLED TO A BRIDGE THAT CONNECTS THE CAPITAL TO THE SMALL ISLAND WHERE DIAMONDS WERE THE EVENTS ON THE WATER FESTIVAL.

At least 345 people died in the evening when they were trampled in a bridge in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh, and is proportional to the number of wounded, according to Prime Minister Hun Shan. Most victims drowned or were trampled when thousands of people who were on a bridge that connects the capital to the small island where Diamonds were the events of the last day of the annual three-day Water Festival panicked and there have been incidents of electric shock.

As Prime Minister Hu expressed regret on television about the accident. According to state television reported that two hospitals are reaching the 278 dead, including 240 women. For Hu Like it "the biggest tragedy of the regime of Pol Pot" so died about two million people, or quarter of the population, torture, malnutrition and exhaustion. Prime Minister also declared Wednesday a national mourning days, and noted that the causes of the accident is not yet known. "We have to investigate further what happened," he said, stressing that they constituted a committee for this purpose.