At least 19 people now known to have died but figure could rise as rescue teams have not reached all areas
A fire that lasted more than 12 hours in a Cambodian hotel casino killed at least 19 people and injured scores more, with an official warning that other people could be missing.
A provisional police report seen by Agence France-Presse said about 400 individuals were believed to be working at the casino.Nhem Phoeng, the Poipet administrative chief, told the Phnom Penh Post that more than 400 people, most of them Thais, became stuck inside the casino. He said most of the deceased were Cambodian and Thai employees.
Rescue workers lower people to the ground as a fire rages at the Grand Diamond City hotel-casino in Poipet, Cambodia.A Thai foreign ministry source also said they were coordinating closely with local authorities, with the injured transferred to hospitals in Thailand’s Sa Kaeo province. “The authorities have been trying to control the fire including by sending in firetrucks from the Thai side,” they said.
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