Gas explosion and fire in Phnom Penh; couple badly burnt.

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Gas explosion and fire in Phnom Penh; couple badly burnt.

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20 June 2017. Around noon today, a gas explosion at a home located at 37, Street 300 in Boeung Keng Kong II, Khan Chamkar Morn, Phnom Penh, caused a huge fire. The occupants of the apartment, a Chinese couple, were badly burnt and taken to hospital. The Phnom Penh fire brigade were called to the scene to extinguish the flames.

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Re: Gas explosion and fire in Phnom Penh; couple badly burnt.

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There is a report in the chinese community that these 2 chinese were high on drugs and gotten into a squabble and the girl went out to get kerosene and burnt themselves.

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Hmm, drugs and petrol don't mix well, especially during a domestic dispute.

Couple injured as wife sets herself ablaze during row

A woman locked in an argument with her husband yesterday tried to commit suicide by setting herself on fire, leading to a blaze that injured the couple in Boeung Keng Kang II commune.
Prom Yorn, chief of the Phnom Penh Municipal Fire Department, said the husband was Chinese and the wife Vietnamese-Khmer.

“According to the neighbours, they had been arguing for a few days,” he said. “She went out to buy petrol today and brought it home. Later, there was a loud argument and she doused herself in petrol and tried to commit suicide.”

Mr Yorn said four fire trucks responded to the scene at about 12pm, but only two were needed to extinguish the blaze inside the fourth-floor room at the apartment building.
Mr Yorn added that both the husband and wife were seriously injured and are recovering in hospital.

A motodop driver stationed outside the apartment building, who requested anonymity out of fear of retribution, said the woman goes by the name Srey Mao and added he suspected she is a drug user.

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Even if they were drug users, that's a terrible way to (not) die:
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Excuses for the frivolous comment since it appears that the man died from his burns earlier today. RIP.
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