A blaze ripped through a community in Phnom Penh’s Meanchey district yesterday, levelling more than 30 homes, officials said. No one was injured. Dy Rath Khemrun, deputy governor of Meanchey district, said the fire began at about 3.00pm near the old dump site in Stung Meanchey II commune’s Prek Tol village.

“Our forces controlled the situation 100 percent, using 17 fire trucks to put out the fire,” he said, noting that it took firefighters one hour to extinguish the blaze. “There were about 32 houses damaged by the fire, meaning 32 families suffered,” he added. “However, no one was killed or injured in the fire.”

Colonel Prum Yorn, chief of the Phnom Penh Municipal Fire Department, said the cause of the fire is still under investigation. “We are working on the case,” he said.

 

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 Situated next to an old dump - possibly a shanty town. There are several in Phnom Penh.