'The baby was just starting to learn to run and talk': Cambodians remember those killed in building collapse

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Six children - including at least two infants - among 36 people killed when an unfinished building collapsed in Cambodia were living on the site ...

, were living on the site with their families, a common practice in Cambodia's construction boom, survivors said on Monday .

Villagers collect steel at a collapsed building which killed 36 workers in Kep, Cambodia, Jan 6, 2020. A black Mercedes Benz Kompressor belonging to the building's now-detained owner was left on the side of the road. The mother, Mae Ah Yai, came to work at the site with her husband when she was pregnant and the entire family lived in the unfinished building.

"The baby was just starting to learn to run around and talk," Chey Phat said, speaking to Reuters by telephone from Svay Rieng province, near Vietnam, where some funerals took place.Authorities have detained the owners of the building, identified as Ek Sarun and his wife, Chhiv Sothy, but Kep governor Ken Satha said on Monday he was unaware if they were charged with any crime.

 

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