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Between 7, and 8, are thought to have been on the bridge at the time. Survivors have criticised the authorities for causing congestion on the bridge by blocking a second route across the river and for responding slowly. Tens of thousands of people had gathered to attend the festival. Sean Ngu, an Australian who was visiting family and friends in Cambodia, told the BBC: "There were too many people on the bridge and then both ends were pushing," he said.
The pushing caused those in the middle to fall to the ground, then [get] crushed. People tried to climb on to the bridge, grabbing and pulling [electric] cables which came loose and electrical shock caused more deaths," he added. Bodies were arranged in lines on straw mats inside a large white tent. Family members peered through open windows, searching for their loved ones. Those identified were covered with a white sheet, those unknown were left exposed so that they could be claimed.
Flies buzzed constantly in the stifling heat. Boupha Lak sat at her dead daughter's feet, gentling stroking them, waiting for the paperwork to be completed so she could take her home. Boupha said: "She went to the festival to see her friends, but she was alone on the bridge when it happened — her friends I have seen today, they were on the other side. She was found on the bridge, crushed underneath all the other bodies. They told me she was on the bottom.
In the heat of midday, coffins lined with wallpaper began arriving in army lorries. They were given out to the family members of victims, along with transport to take their loved ones home. One woman wailed at the pile of wooden coffins, her daughter's name scrawled in text on the lid of one.
She deserved a long life. Cambodia is a country much too used to tragedy, its people weary of loss and of suffering. The prime minister acknowledged as much when he spoke in the middle of the night on Monday. In the late afternoon, more than one hundred monks held a Buddhist vigil at the bridge, burning incense and offering prayers for the souls of the deceased.
By sunset, all the bodies had been cleared from the makeshift morgue at Calmette hospital. Army lorries bound for the provinces, loaded with plain brown coffins and grieving relatives, rolled out of the city all evening. Cambodia stampede: 'I was in the middle.
Everyone was falling'.
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