Lightning strikes, fires, storms kill 90 in Cambodia in January-July


PHNOM PENH (Xinhua): Lightning strikes, fires and storms had claimed 90 lives in Cambodia in the first seven months of 2023, the spokesperson for the National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM) said on Tuesday (Aug 1).

"From January to July this year, 59 people were killed by lightning strikes, 23 by blazes and eight by storms," NCDM spokesperson Soth Kim Kolmony told Xinhua.

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