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Agence France-Presse

Seven people, including five Chinese nationals, have been charged with manslaughter or as accomplices to manslaughter in connection with a building collapse in Cambodia that killed 28 people and sparked anger over shoddy construction regulations.
Chinese building owner Cheng Kun was charged on Tuesday with involuntary manslaughter, causing bodily harm and causing destruction of property, according to a court warrant.
Three other Chinese citizens – contractor Deng Xin Gui, site manager Xie Ya Ping and engineer Gao Yu – were accused as accomplices on all three offences.
“Now they are in jail provisionally,” said Lim Bun Heng, a court spokesman in Preah Sihanouk province.




Another Chinese citizen, a Vietnamese man and a Cambodian landowner have also been charged as accomplices to manslaughter but remain on the run.
According to Cambodian law, all seven could face a three-year maximum sentence for manslaughter.
The collapse of a seven-storey, under-construction Chinese building in the resort town of Sihanoukville on Saturday is the deadliest industrial accident in recent memory in Cambodia.
A close Beijing ally, Cambodia has seen an influx of investments from Chinese developers, including in the booming gambling hub of Sihanoukville.
But the building frenzy has raised concerns about substandard safety regulations in a country where most construction workers are informal day-labourers.

Cambodian authorities have launched an investigation into the fatal accident, which Prime Minister Hun Sen has blamed on “carelessness”.
Recriminations have been swift, with Preah Sihanouk’s governor Yun Min resigning Monday over managerial errors.
Another top disaster management official has been fired for not being “quick enough to respond”, said Hun Sen, warning others “to be more responsible”.




There are an estimated 200,000 construction workers in Cambodia, mostly unskilled, reliant on day wages and not protected by union rules, according to the International Labour Organisation (ILO).
At least 26 people were injured in the building collapse, which prompted a desperate, days-long search for survivors in the mound of rubble.
On Monday afternoon, two people were pulled from the wreckage alive – bruised and weak but spared of serious injuries – more than two days after the building went down.
Sihanoukville was once a sleepy fishing town turned backpacker-favourite, but today is a hotspot for throngs of Chinese tourists.
There are more than 50 Chinese-owned casinos around the beachfront and dozens more under construction, including around the site of Saturday’s building collapse.


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Rescuers search for trapped people in a collapsed building in Sihanoukville city in Preah Sihanouk province, Cambodia. Photo: Xinhua

(190624) -- PHNOM PENH, June 24, 2019 (Xinhua) -- Cambodian Prime Minister Samdech Techo Hun Sen (front) inspects the site of the collapsed building in Sihanoukville city in Preah Sihanouk province, Cambodia on June 24, 2019. The death toll in the collapse of a seven-story under-construction building in southwestern Cambodia's Preah Sihanouk Province early Saturday, has risen to 25, according to the latest report released by the rescue team on Monday. (Xinhua/Li Lay)

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The building’s Chinese owner and three other Chinese citizens have been charged with involuntary manslaughter, causing bodily harm and causing destruction of property
A fifth Chinese national is on the run, as are a Vietnamese man and a Cambodian landowner


The building’s Chinese owner and three other Chinese citizens have been charged with involuntary manslaughter, causing bodily harm and causing destruction of property. A fifth Chinese national is on the run.


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Cambodia building collapse: seven people, including five Chinese nationals, charged over tragedy that killed 28 people in Sihanoukville

The building’s Chinese owner and three other Chinese citizens have been charged with involuntary manslaughter, causing bodily harm and causing destruction of property A fifth Chinese national is on the run, as are a Vietnamese man and a Cambodian landowner

The building’s Chinese owner and three other Chinese citizens have been charged with involuntary manslaughter, causing bodily harm and causing destruction of property

A fifth Chinese national is on the run, as are a Vietnamese man and a Cambodian landowner