Prasat Sambor News Today

PHNOM PENH (The Phnom Penh Post/Asia News Network): Continuous rainfall over the past few days has resulted in flash floods affecting several provinces in Cambodia, causing disruption but not harming lives, according to Soth Kim Kolmony, spokesperson for the National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM).

The Kampong Thom provincial administration urged people living along the Stung Sen River in the province to be highly vigilant to avoid eventual dangers as the water level of the river has reached a high level.

Heavy downpours have been a regular occurrence this rainy season, with the Ministry of Water Resources and Meteorology predicting moderate flooding this year and urging people to remain on alert.

In the first six months of this year, eight children drowned in Kampong Thom province’s Prasat Sambor district, mostly due to “parents or guardians’ negligence”.

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The community in the Chraing Krahorm area of Kampong Thom province’s Prasat Sambor district has asked for immediate intervention from the provincial authorities to stop the encroachment on their 898ha of community land by outsiders who they say have been constructing buildings and planting cashew trees.