A CAMBODIAN pilgrim was killed and 27 others injured after one of a convoy of hundred minibuses plunged down a cliff near a border checkpoint upon returning home from praying at a temple in Sisaket province at 5 p.m. yesterday (Aug. 4), TV Channel 7 said this morning.
Seven seriously wounded Cambodians are being treated at Sisaket Hospital on the Thai side at the request of the Cambodian authorities.
The minibus had plunged down the cliff near Cambodia’s Chalong Veng village just a kilometre away from the border checkpoint.
Mr. Dom (surname not mentioned), a relative of one of the injured Cambodians, said his mother had travelled with around 2,000 pilgrims among them monks to pray at this Sisaket province temple.
On the way back one of the tyres of a minibus where his mother was seated had burst causing it to overturn and plummet off the cliff.
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Top and Front Page: The scene of the accident near the Thai-Cambodian border at Sisaket. Photo: MNG Online
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