Cambodia News (Siem Reap): On November 6, 2020, at 2 am, a car that was traveling from Vietnam to Siem Reap left the road and overturned in a canal, causing 7 dead and 5 injured, on national road 6A, Spean Thnot village, Chikreng district, Siem Reap. It was late and the journey was long; it has been suggested that the driver, a Cambodian man, may have fallen asleep at the wheel. He was killed at the scene of the accident.

At 8:30 am, the police helped to lift the car out of the canal and remove the bodies from the car. The police are searching for the victims' families to take the bodies for the funeral rites.

All the dead, but for the Cambodian driver, and injured are Vietnamese, Viet Nam News agency says.

HÀ NỘI — Six Vietnamese citizens were killed and five others injured after a traffic accident on Thursday in Chi Kreng District, Siem Reap Province, Cambodia.

Cambodian authorities arrived at the scene to handle the case and take those injured to hospital, according to the Vietnam News Agency correspondent in Cambodia.

The Consulate General of Việt Nam in Battambang Province contacted local authorities to verify information after learning of the accident.

The consulate general asked local authorities to treat the injured people and provide guidance on necessary procedures to help in handling the deceased.

The consulate general had dispatched staff to the scene of the accident to get more information and take necessary measures to protect citizens.

https://vietnamnews.vn/society/804340/s ... bodia.html

UPDATE:

Cambodia News, (Siem Reap): Brigadier General Chea Kimsan, Deputy Commissioner for Immigration Planning, said that the minivan was part of a people-smuggling ring. All the victims of the car crash were Vietnamese nationals who entered Cambodia illegally; none of them were stamped out of Vietnam or stamped into Cambodia. The illegal immigrants said that they crossed the border from Vietnam at night on the back of motorbikes, riding through banana plantations into Cambodia.

Each passenger in the accident vehicle had paid a gang 15,000,000 VND to be smuggled across Cambodia and into Thailand, where they planned to look for work. A car met them across the border, and they were heading for Battambang and the Thai border when the driver of their vehicle drove off the road into a swamp.

The five surviving Vietnamese are as follows:
1. Name: TRUONG THI KHUYEN, female, born on 12-02-1982, Vietnamese national, holding passport
2. Name: PHAN THI VAN, female, born on 05/05/1984, Vietnamese national, holding passport
3. Name: HOANG QUOC TUAN, male, born on 16-06-1979, Vietnamese nationality, holding passport
4. Name: DANG VAN VINH, male, born on 10 March 1981, Vietnamese nationality, passport
5-Name: PHAM VIET LOI, Male, Born on 14-03-1981, Vietnamese, Passport missing.
They are being dealt with by the Department of Immigration.
The bodies of those who died in the accident have been sent to the Stung Meanchey pagoda in Phnom Penh as a temporary measure.

Cambodia News, (Banlung): Another five Vietnamese nationals were deported from Ratankkiri province this week.In the morning of November 3, 2020, the immigration forces of the Ratanakiri police arrested 5 Vietnamese people, 3 women and two men, in Ban Lung, Ratanakiri province, for living and working illegally in Cambodia.
Currently, the skillful police force (sic) has collaborated to send the foreigners back to Pleiku in Vietnam, through O' Yadav International Border Gate.

clutchcargo wrote: ↑Sat Nov 07, 2020 6:29 pm

Each passenger in the accident vehicle had paid a gang 15,000,000 VND to be smuggled across Cambodia and into Thailand, where they planned to look for work.

Geez, things that bad in Vietnam and they think Thailand will be better? Maybe it's true, I don't really know but nevertheless surprises me..

For some. I doubt they are Kinh.

Other reports say that the car crash victims were from Ha Tien (in the south) and the traffickers took them north to cross the border to Cambodia. Probably using the same illegal border crossings that are used for transporting wood from Cambodia to Vietnam.

RIP anyway. That's the end of their dreams of a better life.

Those surviving 5 were so incredibly lucky. Hard to get out with 12 people in there, it's pitch black, van's overturned and underwater - what a nightmare. I'm guessing everyone in the back rows died as all the windows are intact.


In Thailand, these 5 would of course be in high demand to pick lotto numbers.

clutchcargo wrote: ↑Sat Nov 07, 2020 6:29 pm

Each passenger in the accident vehicle had paid a gang 15,000,000 VND to be smuggled across Cambodia and into Thailand, where they planned to look for work.

Geez, things that bad in Vietnam and they think Thailand will be better? Maybe it's true, I don't really know but nevertheless surprises me..

Certainly surprises me too

siliconlife wrote: ↑Sat Nov 07, 2020 7:59 pm

clutchcargo wrote: ↑Sat Nov 07, 2020 6:29 pm

Each passenger in the accident vehicle had paid a gang 15,000,000 VND to be smuggled across Cambodia and into Thailand, where they planned to look for work.

Geez, things that bad in Vietnam and they think Thailand will be better? Maybe it's true, I don't really know but nevertheless surprises me..

For some. I doubt they are Kinh.

Yes I must say they don't look kinh