Many Deaths by Lightning in June Storms

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Cambodia News (Kampong Chhnang): On 19 June 2022, a thunderstorm caused natural disasters in many districts of Cambodia, and a number of people, mostly farmers, were struck and killed by lightning.

- In Prey Moul village, Prey Moul commune 76-year-old So Yeun was struck by lightning and fainted while he was herding cows in the field. The victim was then sent to Kampong Chhnang Provincial Referral Hospital but was pronounced dead on arrival.
- In Otanees village, Rolea Bier commune, a 26-year-old Cham man named Sman Yep was also struck by lightning while the victim was herding cattle in a rice field. The lightning killed Mr. Sman Yep on the spot.
- In Teuk Phos district, Chambok Prasat village, Kraing Ska commune, a 24-year-old man named Khvek Sok became the victim of a lightning strike while he was riding a motorbike to a rice field.

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- Two school children,14 years old Bo Samnang, and 11 years old Ratana, were killed in a field in Sre Ambel District, Koh Kong Province, on 19 June.
The woman at the house said that her son and her nephew went to help plow the fields while it was raining and thundering. Unfortunately the two children were struck by lightning, causing their immediate death at the scene.
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Cambodia News (Banteay Meanchey Province): At 5:20 on June 26, 2022 in Santepheap Village, Toul Pong Commune, Malai district, a 44-year-old pregnant woman named Ban Ly died in the village when she was struck by lightning, while picking snails for a living.
Immediately on receiving this information, the police, in cooperation with the local authorities, sent a team to rescue the woman who was eight-months pregnant, but she unfortunately died on the way to the health center.
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The victim’s family lead a life of extreme poverty, living from day to day without any realistic occupation, earning barely enough to feed the family. They would pick vegetables on the fence of the house of the villagers, gather berries in the forest, and collected snails to sell for the family's livelihood. The victim left behind a family of eight people.
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Lightning injures six students in Battambang, one seriously
Khouth Sophak Chakrya | Publication date 29 June 2022 | 11:13 ICT
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Six students at Rattanak Mondul Secondary School in Battambang province were electrocuted and knocked unconscious on the afternoon of June 27 when three lightning strikes hit a tree growing in the schoolyard about 20m away from their classroom.

Chhuon Sophea, an English teacher at the school who was present for the incident, told The Post that the school had a zinc roof and when it rained heavily, the day's lessons were routinely interrupted by the noise from the rain until it stopped.

Sophea said some of the children were playing games while others were drawing or chatting. The students who were injured were gathered at the doorway to the classroom watching the storm outside when there was a sudden flash of light and then three lightning strikes hit the tree in the schoolyard in quick succession.

"First I saw sparks exploding from the base of the tree about 20m in front of my classroom. Then I heard sounds like gunfire or explosions, as if three shots had been fired, it was that loud. And then the kids standing in the doorway all just collapsed in a heap," he said. "The other students were scared and began crying and I immediately called for help to bring the injured students to hospital."
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