Four-year-old Dies in Devastating Blaze

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Khmer Times/Srey Kumneth

A four-year-old boy died in a fire that claimed seven houses in Sihanoukville’s Lekboun district at around 2 pm on Sunday. According to police, people living in the neighborhood reported hearing fireworks right before the blaze erupted inside a nearby house. It quickly spread from one home to the next.

Police officer Uk Phanvarith said the boy was asleep in his home when he died.

“The mother was selling things in front of her house and kept her son sleeping inside the house alone. Her husband went to work, so she stayed with her only son. While the fire burned houses, the mother forgot that she kept her son in the house,” he said.

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