Death toll rises to 8 in under-repair nightclub fire in Phnom Penh

Passersby peek through barriers at a nightclub damaged after a fire in Phnom Penh on July 2, 2023. - AFP

PHNOM PENH (Xinhua): The death toll had risen to eight in an under-renovation entertainment club blaze in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, a municipal police spokesman said on Sunday (July 2).

"Two more bodies were found in the scorched nightclub building Sunday morning, bringing the total number of the dead to eight (six men and two women)," Phnom Penh Municipal Police spokesman San Sok Seiha told Xinhua, adding that the victims were renovation workers.