Siem Reap: Wind and Rain contractions cause your house and booths selling some 29 houses were damaged in people 4 injured 1.

Incident of this nature occurred at 14 pm and 30 pm on 15 May 2016 in 06 villages of Siem Reap.

Local officials said that: 14 pm and 30 pm in the neighborhood Kneas City incident Wind and Rain contract cause your house and booths selling some 29 houses were damaged in the collapse of 07 houses roof 22 homes, 4 people suffered minor injuries 1 in 06 villages of the neighborhood khnie city.

Also noteworthy: in Siem Reap deadly disasters occurred in the district and City caused people homeless damaged homes. Cases of natural disasters, citizens submitted to the relevant authorities, especially the generous help for their families.

Pursat province: one person dead and another seriously injured after being struck by lightning while sitting on a bed under rained a great phenomenon occurred 02 hours and 30 minutes the afternoon of May 17 2016 in the village field Samrong district, Pursat Cardamom.

The source said the victims who died Seung Kim, 13, and father unconscious 67-year-old Jai Seung live in the village and commune scene above.

Sim Ron Samrong administrative chief, told the island, at about 2 pm in the Cardamom Mountains rain great wind mixed with lightning and thunder shook the ground. While father and son and 2 grandchildren sat on the bed under shelter from the rain. After 02 hours and 30 minutes in the afternoon while sitting together then suddenly a lightning fire caused her son died on the spot and his father unconscious and 2 grandchildren okay . whereas a dog and a chicken nearby lightning killed in and solar panel solar lightning was completely destroyed.

They noted that this year the weather warming very different than usual. When entering the rainy season and still hot and rain in places. in Pursat not rain somewhere windy, but was only a browser away, causing the wind snatched collapsing houses and lightning killed brutally
. Obviously as this afternoon, 17 of the Cardamom just rained a great while fellow citizens this rain is enthusiastic but nature provides lightning human and animal deaths in Samrong such.

In terms of 1 month in the Province, the wind snatched more than 100 houses collapsed lightning killed 3 people and injured about 7 people.

Chhnang: 5 people were seriously injured and lighter due to lightning stilts at 4 and 30 pm 17 May 2016 in Kampot thatched village gums tunnel Baribour commune district 5, even while they ran chohpileuphteah refuge under the house when it rains and strong winds, while in the meantime, some 6 homes were damaged by storm twitching.

Thun Treasury chief police gums tunnel richly told by telephone, said this afternoon that there were 5 victims 1- the 30-year-old Huon host, 2 Poch 18 years of age, 3 am, 20-year-old rapper, 4 - Venezuelan morning and 5. Chin OEM 5 of their 22-year resident of nearby villages scene above.

He said that before the incident, the rain and wind, and then they all 5 people on the ground and into refuge slightly below the house when suddenly lightning shot column medambaul caused landslides column rods refuge under the house had minor injuries and was sent to rescue the local health center in abundance. in the rain and wind that made the 6 houses suffered roof and back kitchen wall while others were about to collapse ground.

In the district health centers abound on the morning of May 18, 2016 Khuong Saorom governor measure went down and visited victims said the victims were 5 out of danger to life, but doctors are not allowed to go home Rest in the hospital waiting for the follow-injury.

When visited, the governor richly supported victims in each of 2 thousand USD.

Pursat: 6 people were struck by lightning, causing one dead, one seriously injured and 4 lightly while rain great in the province.

The incident took place at 2 pm and 30 pm on May 17, 2016 in a field in the village commune Chrolang Cardamom district, Pursat province.

The victims, who were killed and injured is known 1. Jai Seung 67-year-old male living Veal Samrong seriously injured taken to hospital Cardamom. 2. Seung Kim belonging to 13-year-old male resident Veal Samrong (death). This case of rain, wind, lightning caused a dead chicken 1 1 dog head and a broken solar panel 1 set. Those minor injuries did not cite identity.

Khmer Times/Pav Suy
Wednesday, 18 May 2016
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Three separate lightning strikes killed three people in Pursat and Siem Reap provinces yesterday afternoon, as well as one dog and one chicken, according to police.


Four others were injured in the strikes, which took place in Bakan and Kravanh districts.


A Bakan district police officer who requested anonymity said a 66-year-old man named Seung was killed by a lightning strike in a stable in Talo commune’s Praha village.


“The lightning struck a man while he was in a cow stable. We could not bring him to the hospital because he was killed instantly by the lightning,” the officer said.


Elsewhere, deputy police Lorng Channa reported a deadly lightning strike in Kravanh district.


“The lightning strike happened at 2:30pm. It struck a group of five family members hiding under their shared house. A son was killed immediately, while the father was seriously injured and was hospitalized at the district hospital,” Mr. Channa said, adding that a dog and a chicken were both killed in the strike as well.


In Siem Reap province yesterday, a soldier was killed by a lightning strike in Banteay Srey district’s Tbeng commune. He was stationed in Sras Kvav village.


Banteay Srey district police chief Muy Norn said the soldier was killed inside his thatch and corrugated iron house in the army camp when lightning struck the structure’s antenna.


“The accident happened at about 2pm or 3pm [on Tuesday]. It was windy when the lightning struck. It killed the soldier while he was inside his house made from thatch which had a corrugated iron roof. The lightning struck the antenna,” Mr. Norn said.


According to statistics from the National Committee for Disaster Management, in the first five months of this year lightning has killed 29 people and injured 35 others.

Two farmers were killed by a lightning strike in Banteay Meanchey province yesterday, according to police.


The men, a father and his son-in-law, were changing their tractor’s tires near their rice field in Thmey Thma Pouk district’s Khang Lech village on their way home at about 3:30pm when the storm struck, district deputy police chief So Chhea said.


“The two men were at the rice field changing their wheels after plowing the rice field in the rain while traveling back home. Our forces went to the scene, but the victims had already died. They were under a large tree when the lightning struck,” Mr. Chhea said.


He added that in a given year there are typically two to three lightning-related deaths in the area. Last year, a fisherman was struck and killed nearby.


Phum Thmey commune police administrator Yim Sokha identified the father-in-law as 50-year-old Yong Ya and his son-in-law as 31-year-old Ky Sophal.


“There was little rain with dark clouds at that time. We went to the scene and carried the bodies back home at about 4pm. When the lightning struck, we did not know anyone died, but people nearby the area called police,” Mr. Soka said, adding that both bodies were cremated yesterday morning.


According to the National Committee of Disaster Management (NCDM), a total of 39 people have been killed by lightning strikes in the first five months of this year, up from the 28 deaths in the same period last year. The number of injuries caused by lightning strikes is also up, from 15 in the first five months of 2015 to 46 this year. Animal deaths caused by lightning are up from 25 to 27.


A total of 184 people were struck by lightning last year in Cambodia, 107 of whom were killed – a dramatic jump from the 75 fatalities in 2014, according to the NCDM. The odds of being killed by lightning in Cambodia in 2015 were 7.1 in a million, some of the highest in the world.