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Cambodia Breaking News(Pailin province) : Two people are reportedly missing in a landslide that occurred on September 16, 2019 in Samlot district, on the border with Thailand.
On September 17, 2019, the 5th Brigade and more than 20 friends and relatives of the victims searched the scene, finding only the victims' hat and shoes, but no body has been found yet.

Residents and relatives have appealed to provincial and district authorities to intervene in the search for the victims. The identity of the victims has not been released.

The search continued today for two missing people following a landslide in the Cambodian-Thai border region.

It was confirmed that on Monday, September 16, 2019, seven people had entered the jungle at the Cambodian-Thai border, Peam Tampa commune, and were swept away by torrential rains and landslides. Four people escaped, one was seriously injured and two are missing.

General Chhum Sochet, spokesman for the Ministry of Defense on 18 September 2019, wrote on Facebook that today a coalition of armed forces and local people resumed their search for two missing Cambodian citizens.
Thai and Cambodian forces are are working together in the border region to find the missing people or to recover the bodies.

Good news: one person has been found alive.

Battambang: According to a military official, a victim of the landslide was found still alive, but suffering from some injuries. However, he did not confirm the identity of the victim, who was still waiting to be taken to the 5th Brigade Command and transferred to hospital.

Later on, Lieutenant General Ouch Sokhon, the provincial police chief, said that the victim was found in Thai territory about two kilometers from the Cambodian border. He said that because the incident occurred on the Thai side of the border, our forces received the information late. Now, at this time, the victim has been brought to the hospital.

Good news about the one survivor.
I just about never pray, but i will send up a plea to the spirits for the other missing person.

It is amazing just how powerful a photograph of a pair of shoes can be..

Pics from the rescue operation:

Unfortunately, the other missing man was not so lucky. RIP.

September 21, 2019
Man found dead days after landslide
A man who went missing on Monday when flash floods rushing down a mountain side caused a landslide and swamped a village in Battambang province’s Samlot district, was found dead on Friday.

Samlot district governor Sao Samet identified the man as Phan Ry, 20, from Ta Tork commune’s O’Treng village near the Cambodian-Thai border.

“Cambodian and Thai authorities cooperated and found Mr Ry in Thai territory. Sadly, he already died and his body was decomposing,” he said. “We have informed his family and relatives to pick the body for funeral today.
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/645202/man ... landslide/