Child Burnt as Petrol Seller Ignites Shop

CEOCambodiaNews · Post by **CEOCambodiaNews** » Wed Jul 01, 2020 9:54 pm

Kampong Chhnang: A mother and her child were seriously injured in a fire in Kompong Prasat village, Chhlong commune, Chul Kiri district, Kampong Chhnang province at 8:37 pm on July 1, 2020. The mother, Nimla, was 37 years old and her son Saing Kimsen was three.

The fire was caused by the victim's husband while the wife was selling gasoline, which ignited to severely injure the mother and child. 3 gallons of gasoline caught fire in the shop before the blaze was contained.

Both victims were taken to hospital at the Kampong Chhnang referral hospital.

Chad Sexington · Post by **Chad Sexington** » Wed Jul 01, 2020 10:18 pm

Sad for the baby. It makes me cringe when I see someone (usually a kid) filling a Moto with petrol poured from glass coke bottles, all while 2 yards away there’s a table full of folk smoking cigarettes (one of my local shops happily let their four year old boy fill up the Moto’s, slopping petrol over the bike and threatening to drop the bottle any moment) surprised this doesn’t happen more often.