Typhoon Ketsana kills 11 in Cambodia: official

30 Sept, 2009
AFP

PHNOM PENH — Typhoon Ketsana has killed at least 11 people in northeastern and central Cambodia, police and government officials said Wednesday.

Nine were killed and 28 injured in central Cambodia while two died in the northeast overnight as the country was battered by the storm, officials said.

"At least nine people were crushed last night when their house fell down," said Chea Cheat, chief of the Red Cross office in central Kampong Thom province.

Chea Cheat added that at least 78 houses in his province were destroyed Tuesday evening and that heavy rain and rising floods were continuing.

International organisations and government officials in Cambodia said they were distributing tents and food to affected people while assessing damage across at least five of the country's provinces.

The death toll from Ketsana in Vietnam has risen to at least 38, officials said, after 246 died when the storm struck the Philippines over the weekend.

An official from the flood and storm control committee in the central Vietnam city of Danang said another 10 people were missing.