Truck transporting Cambodian garment workers overturns, leaving 44 injured: police

A truck transporting garment workers to their factory flipped onto its side in southeastern Cambodia Friday morning, leaving 44 people wounded, the National Police reported.

The accident happened on National Road 1 in Svay Rieng province’s Bavet city when the truck’s driver was trying to avoid a collision with a bus coming from the opposite direction and veered off the road, causing the vehicle to overturn.

“Forty-four out of 55 workers aboard the truck were injured, and four of them sustained serious injuries,” the National Police said on its website.

In full: http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/asiapacific/2021-03/12/c_139805441.htm

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