This aerial photo taken on October 10, 2020 shows a flooded village in Cambodia's western Battambang province, following heavy rains in the region. - AFP
PHNOM PENH, Oct 11 (AFP): Elderly residents and small children clung to inflatable tyres as soldiers and police used rope lines to get them to safety from rising floodwater on Saturday in Cambodia's western province of Battambang.
Hundreds of families in three Cambodian provinces -- Pursat, Battambang and Pailin -- have been forced to evacuate amid extreme rainfall ahead of the arrival of a tropical depression across the Mekong region.
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