Seven girls drown in lake in southwestern Cambodia: police
Source: Xinhua   2017-02-28 13:31:29

PHNOM PENH, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) -- Seven young girls drowned while playing waters in a lake in southwestern Cambodia's Preah Sihanouk Province on Tuesday morning, a provincial police official told Xinhua.

Major General Chuon Narin, police chief of the province, said a group of nine local children went to play waters but two of them did not get down.

"All seven girls, who bathed in the lake, died of drowning," he told Xinhua via telephone, adding that the victims aged between eight and 13 years old.

According to Narin, the lake was a bit far from a nearby village, and there was no adult over there when the accident occurred.

Drownings happen very often in Cambodia, particularly in rural areas, where parents or legal guardians are busy with their farming work and leave their small children at home alone.

On Feb. 7, three children, aged between four and six years old, drowned in a pond in central Kampong Thom Province when their parents were at work.

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Seven girls drown in lake in southwestern Cambodia: police

Source: Xinhua 2017-02-28 13:31:29
[Editor: huaxia]

PHNOM PENH, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) -- Seven young girls drowned while playing waters in a lake in southwestern Cambodia's Preah Sihanouk Province on Tuesday morning, a provincial police official told Xinhua.

Major General Chuon Narin, police chief of the province, said a group of nine local children went to play waters but two of them did not get down.

"All seven girls, who bathed in the lake, died of drowning," he told Xinhua via telephone, adding that the victims aged between eight and 13 years old.

According to Narin, the lake was a bit far from a nearby village, and there was no adult over there when the accident occurred.

Drownings happen very often in Cambodia, particularly in rural areas, where parents or legal guardians are busy with their farming work and leave their small children at home alone.

On Feb. 7, three children, aged between four and six years old, drowned in a pond in central Kampong Thom Province when their parents were at work.

[Editor: huaxia]
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