According to reports, ray in the Angkor Wat temple in Cambodia kills 3 people

Bangkok – Three people were killed and several other wounds when they were run over by lightning while visiting the famous Cambodian Angkor that Temple complex. They had been looking for shelter around the main temple of the Unesco World Heritage site when the ray hit on Friday afternoon.

The video posted on social networks showed two ambulances that arrived later and the spectators and the site officials taking some injured people and helping others on foot. Other images showed several people treated in the hospital.

The day after the incident, the Minister of Tourism of Cambodia, Hout Hak, issued a statement telling people to eliminate online positions in this regard, saying that the dissemination of “negative information” could damage the tourism sector of the country.

The authorities have not published information about the incident, but an official on Monday, speaking on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the problem, confirmed to The News that three people, all Cambodians, were killed in the lightning strike.

The Cambodian Red Cross also published an update that said he had delivered packages of attention to the families of two of the victims, a 34 -year -old man and a 52 -year -old woman. The Red Cross refused to comment more on the phone.

A spokesman for Angkor that site He did not respond to requests for comments, nor a regional health officer.

The Cambodian government under Prime Minister Hun Manet maintains tight information control, and has been accused of rights groups on the use of the judicial system to process critics and political opponents.

Hun Manet in 2023 happened to his father, Hun Sen, who was widely criticized for the suppression of freedom of expression during his almost four decades of autocratic government.

Angkor Wat is the best known tourist attraction of Cambodia, attracting some 2.5 million visitors annually and even appears on the country’s flag.

Unesco calls the site, which extends through about 155 square miles and contains the ruins of the capitals of the Jmer Empire from the 1st to the 15th century, one of the most important archaeological sites in Southeast Asia.

Cambodia has been actively developing the area to attract more visitors, including the opening of a new airport financed by the Chinese of $ 1.1 billion in the nearby Siem Reap.

However, its movement to relocate about 10,000 families in the Angkor Wat area to a new settlement has generated generalized criticisms of human rights groups, and UNESCO itself has expressed concern.

The Cambodian authorities have said that families were voluntarily relocated, but Amnesty International and others have questioned how volunteers have really been relocations.

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