Big fire at Le Macau casino and hotel.

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Big fire at Le Macau casino and hotel.

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A fire broke out at Le Macau casino and hotel in Bavet city, Svay Rieng province, around 2pm on the afternoon of 29 June 2017. It is believed to have been started by welders' sparks.
Police and fire trucks rushed to the scene and the blaze was contained within 2 hours. Fortunately no one was seriously hurt.
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Re: Big fire at Le Macau casino and hotel.

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I wonder how much money they lost .
Cambodia,,,, Don't fall in love with her.
Like the spoilt child she is, she will not be happy till she destroys herself from within and breaks your heart.
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One would hope they kept the cash in a fireproof safe, rather than lying around in boxes.
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Blaze damages casino in Bavet; none injured
30 June 2017
A fire broke out at Le Macao Casino Hotel in Svay Rieng’s Bavet town yesterday, injuring none but seriously damaging the building, according to local authorities.
The blaze began at 2:30pm, with multiple fire engines ordered to the site to extinguish the fire.
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Send Sela, the governor of the town, a popular gambling destination on the Vietnam-Cambodia border, was at the scene. Sela estimated the building was 40 percent destroyed.
He said the fire was the fault of a careless construction crew that was cutting and welding metal beams within the building. Sela added that the team fled the room immediately without trying to put out the fire.

Mao Phinphearum, Bavet town police chief, said the damage was much more severe than Sela’s estimate.
“The fire almost destroyed the whole casino,” he said, adding that the flames burned for three hours and required 11 fire engines to put them out. Six of the fire engines were sent over the border from Vietnam...
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