5 children drowned as car plunges into river
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SEVEN people, five of them children, drowned in Cambodia when a car packed with passengers slipped off a ferry and plunged into a river, police said yesterday.
The incident took place on Sunday night in southern Kandal province when a driver boarded a local ferry at what investigators said was an unsafe speed.
“The driver had drunk two cans of beer ... he drove the car too fast onto a ferry and it fell into the water,” a police report said.
The group had been returning from worshiping at a relative’s grave for the annual Qingming Festival. or tomb sweeping day, the report added.
The driver managed to escape out of a window but his passengers, including children aged between 4 and 13, died.
The driver has since been arrested.
Three other people who were part of the group had left the vehicle before it boarded the ferry, police said.
Cambodia has a poor health and safety record with road and industrial accidents commonplace.
Ferries are often used to transport cars and motorbikes over wide rivers in the tropical nation.
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