Cambodia stampede kills at least 345 at festival

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Cambodian police officials stand guard near a bridge in Phnom Penh on November 23, 2010​

 

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A relative of a stampede victim lights incense near bodies lined at Preah Kossamak Hospital in Phnom Penh November 23, 2010.​

 

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A Cambodian relative of a stampede victim shows the dead's identification card at Preah Kossamak Hospital in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010.​

 

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Cambodian relatives of a stampede victim cry in front of their sister's body at Preah Kossamak Hospital in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010.​

 

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Cambodian police collect thumb prints from stampede victims for identification purposes at Preah Kossamak Hospital in Phnom Penh November 23, 2010.​

 

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Cambodian police collect thumb prints stampede victims for identification purposes at Preah Kossamak Hospital in Phnom Penh November 23, 2010​

 

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A Cambodian medical officer checks the body of a stampede victim at Preah Kossamak Hospital in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010​

 

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A survivor of a Phnom Penh water festival stampede (2nd, L) is helped home by her family at Preah Kossamak Hospital in Phnom Penh November 23, 2010.​

 

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Cambodians gather to try to enter the Preah Kossamak Hospital to look for their missing relatives in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010.​

 

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People gather near a bridge as police investigate the site of a stampede in the early morning in Phnom Penh November 23, 2010​

 

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Cambodians look for their missing relatives following a stampede at Preah Kossamak Hospital in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010.​

 

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Relatives light incense sticks in front of the coffins of deceased Bun Ratha (L) and his wife Sim Ratanak at a funeral in Kandal province, about 10km (6 miles) north of Phnom Penh November 23, 2010. Saffron-robed Buddhist monks chanted as onlookers gazed silently across a bridge piled with the shoes and torn clothing left behind by victims of a stampede in Cambodia's capital. Ratha and Ratanak died at a stampede on the Diamond Gate bridge during an annual three-day Water Festival. The body count stood at 375 by sunset on Tuesday and was expected to rise.​

 

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Cheuom Srey Sros (C) prays, as she mourns for her brother who died in a stampede, during a religious ceremony near a bridge in Phnom Penh November 23, 2010​

 

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Cambodian Buddhist monks pray near the site where people stampeded during Monday's water festival in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010.​

 

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Cambodian Buddhist monks and officials pray for victims near the site where people stampeded during Monday's water festival in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010.​

 

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Buddhist monks take part in a religious ceremony, to mourn for the deaths of stampede victims, near a bridge in Phnom Penh November 23, 2010. About 400 Buddhist monks took part in the ceremony​

 

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