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Four people on board an overloaded tour boat in Kampot province died when the craft sank after running into a submerged sandbar on Monday, local authorities said.

 

According to Kampong Bay commune police chief Lim Sambo, three women and one boy – identified as 47-year-old Chin Ny, her 9-year-old son Sang Sokheng and 72-year-old mother Khan Yiv, as well as 62-year-old Sok Sokhom – were found dead after the boat, returning from watching fireflies, sank, presumably after hitting the riverbed.

 

“The boat might have collided with the sand,” Sambo speculated. “It carried too many people. After [the collision], the boat started to sink little by little.”

 

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I took that same firefly cruise in Kampot last fall.  The river is so shallow and so narrow, I can't imagine how four people drowned, unless they didn't know how to swim.  Tragedy.