RFA, Oct. 20, 2020
‘Worse than war’
In Cambodia, the death toll remained at 25 from a day earlier, with some 40,000 evacuated to temporary shelters, National Committee for Disaster Management spokesperson Khun Sokha told RFA’s Khmer Service. More than 200,000 hectares of paddy field and nearly 80,000 farms have also been destroyed, with more than 500 school buildings and 79 garment factories damaged.
Roads, hospitals, and dams have also been affected, authorities said.
In a notice issued on Tuesday, the Poipet Administration of Banteay Meanchey province, along Cambodia’s border with Thailand, temporarily closed portions of National Road 5. Downtown Poipet saw flooding of homes and roads, which the notice attributed to rains in Thailand.
Sann Ratha, a resident of Kaun Damrei village, in Poipet’s Sangkat Nimith district, told RFA that water levels increased so rapidly that several hundred families were forced to leave their homes.
He said people are stranded and in desperate need of food and other supplies.
“We are under the attack from the flood—our village looks like a river now with water everywhere and houses submerged,” he said.
“The current situation is worse than during the [1967-1975] civil war. We need the authorities to help us immediately.”
In full: https://www.rfa.org/english/news/vietnam/toll-10202020175620.html
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