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>> nbc news correspondent ian williams is a veteran reporter in the region. >> different countries have different ways of working. cambodia is a special case. it's a very small country. it's also a very poor country. and a lot of the systems that are in place in cambodia, whether it's law enforcement, the health system and crowd control systems, are pretty basic. >> every year nearly 2 million people flood cambodia's capital city phnom penh for the water festival, which marks the end of the rainy season. on the final night of the 2010 festival, a concert lets out and crowds begin to converge o...

Newly constructed bridge. it's the only pedestrian walkway protecting the mainland to dooimd island. freelance journalist robert carmichael and his friend live there. >> it was newly opened. there were people on the island who wanted to leave and go home. there were people on the mainland who wanted to get on the island to come and have a good time. >> it had gotten tighter and tighter and tighter. there was no outlet. >> people started leaving the island and got caught in the middle. >> a massive crush of people forms on the bridge. each person desperately reaching for pockets of air and the ...