FILE PHOTO: A rescue team searches for trapped workers at a collapsed building, which was under construction in Kep, Cambodia January 3, 2020. REUTERS/Stringer
PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Thirty-six people were killed and 23 more injured when a tourist guesthouse under construction in Cambodia collapsed, trapping workers under rubble, officials said on Sunday.
Officials said rescue operations ended two days after the seven-storey concrete building collapsed on Friday in the coastal town of Kep, about 160 km (100 miles) southwest of the capital Phnom Penh.
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