PHNOM PENH – Thirty-six people were killed and 23 more were injured when a tourist guesthouse under construction in Cambodia collapsed, officials said on Sunday.
The 36 dead included six children and 14 women, they added.
Rescue operations ended two days after the seven-story concrete building collapsed on Friday in Kep’s coastal town.
Kep Governor Ken Satha said the owners of the building, a Cambodian couple, had been detained for questioning.
The Kep building collapse came six months after 28 people were killed when a Chinese-owned construction site collapsed in Preah Sihanouk province. Seven people were charged with involuntary manslaughter and a disaster management official was fired over that incident.(Reuters)
