$11,000 paid for woman's death from explosives

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$11,000 paid for woman's death from explosives

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4 December 2017
- The family of a woman killed by a falling rock at a quarry in Tbong Khmum province has received $11,000 and funeral expenses in exchange for not filing a complaint against the firm involved, police said yesterday.

The company belonging to tycoon Lim Bunna was licensed to break rocks using explosives at the site in Tbong Khmum district’s Chiro 2.

On Friday, a rock hit the victim Kheng Samnang, 34, following an explosion, killing her instantly.

A Tbong Khmum district police officer said the case had been closed following extrajudicial compensation provided to the victim’s family. “The victim’s family agreed to accept compensation from the company in exchange for not filing a complaint,” he said.
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Lim Bunna company representative Veng Ly said the victim was partly to blame.
“We sound a siren before explosions. She was walking to an engagement ceremony and the siren had already gone off. She was about 200 metres within the company’s land. People are supposed to stay away after the siren goes off. The safe distance is 500 metres,” he said...
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Probe into quarry death requested
4 December 2017
Villages are asking authorities to investigate tycoon Lim Bunna’s rock quarry in Tbong Khmum province after a woman was killed by what appeared to be debris from an explosion on Friday.
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Kheng Samnang, 34, a local who lived near the tycoon’s quarry in Tbong Khmum district’s Chirou II commune, was found dead of a serious head injury about 700 metres from the site of a blast at the quarry, which had been preceded by a warning siren, according to District Police Chief Suos Siengly. A large bloodstained rock was found nearby...
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