8yo boy crushed to death by spirit house in terrible accident.

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8yo boy crushed to death by spirit house in terrible accident.

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An 8 year old boy died in an accident around 10:30am on Thursday December 1, 2016, in a shop making and selling spirit houses in Takhmao, when a spirit house fell off its post directly on to the child's head. It appears that he was killed instantly. RIP.
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Re: 8yo boy crushed to death by spirit house in terrible accident.

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A little girl was also killed yesterday when a spirit house in her family's restaurant fell on her.
http://bit.ly/2gSxhKs
Thus 2 children killed in 1 day by falling spirit houses.

Not the first article I've read of this cause of death either.
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The top part is usually just balanced on the column, or has a little bit of cement that doesn't have much strength. It doesn't take much for the top to fall off.
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they have to be blessed by a monk after they are made so at the factory they are just concrete houses!
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How awful :(


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SinnSisamouth wrote:they have to be blessed by a monk after they are made so at the factory they are just concrete houses!

But he's still dead, right?


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Re: 8yo boy crushed to death by spirit house in terrible accident.

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Recent Phnom Penh Post article on pteah tevoda, or spirit houses, and the people that build them:

Supernatural effort: building the homes of Cambodia’s spirit world
Fri, 2 December 2016
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weeke ... irit-world
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