Cambodia: Flooding death toll hits 247

[Ronan Kelly]

Flooding death toll hits 105 .
Friday, 30 September 2011 12:02 Mom Kunthear and Thik Kaliyann .


The death toll from nationwide floods yesterday rose to 105 people, new government statistics revealed. The near month-long catastrophe has also threatened some 200,000 hectares of rice paddies.

Chief of Cabinet at the National Committee for Disaster Management Keo Vy confirmed yesterday that eight more people had died since the latest official count.

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[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Cambodia: Flooding death toll hits 105

Re: Cambodia: Flooding death toll hits 105

Death toll rises; risk at riverbanks .
Monday, 10 October 2011 12:01 Mom Kunthear and Bridget di Certo .

With the death toll from nationwide flooding climbing to 206 over the weekend and lengthy sections of banks along the Mekong, Tonle Sap and Bassac rivers at risk of collapse, the government was urged yesterday to call for international assistance.

?I think the government needs to launch an appeal to the international community for assistance,? Kim Rattana, executive director of relief agency Caritas, said yesterday. ?Foreign donors are waiting for an official appeal before they will donate.?

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[Ronan Kelly]

Re: Cambodia: Flooding death toll hits 206

Re: Cambodia: Flooding death toll hits 206

Floods not yet an ?emergency? .Tuesday, 18 October 2011 12:01 Vincent MacIsaac and Buth Reaksmey Kongkea .

Although as many as 79,000 families in Prey Veng province alone face chronic food shortages for the next year due to the loss of their rice crops, the government has yet to declare the worst flooding to hit the Kingdom in more than a decade to be a national emergency.

Such a declaration would open channels for more and swifter delivery of aid to the more than one million Cambodians affected by around two months of flooding, tens of thousands of who are in immediate need of aid, relief workers said yesterday. But Keo Vy, director of the National Committee for Disaster Management, said that the ?government has the ability to handle this, so it should not declare a national emergency?.

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This year?s flooding has killed 247 people and affected more than one million people in 17 provinces, Kim Rattana said, adding that the floodwaters were receding at the slowest pace they had seen.

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