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The death toll from the collapse of a building under construction in Cambodia has surged to 36, even as an additional survivor was pulled from the rubble, officials said on Sunday as the search concluded.
At least a dozen bodies were found in overnight operations at the site in the coastal province of Kep, where the building toppled on Friday.
Prime Minister Hun Sen announced the end of the rescue operation, confirming that a total of 23 injured survivors were found.
A statement from Kep provincial authorities said that at least 13 women and six children were among the dead.


Women are often employed as construction workers in Cambodia and neighbouring Thailand, but families of workers also often live at the construction sites.
In a news conference, Hun Sen said that the couple who owned the building and hired the construction crew had been detained and sent to court to face charges. He did not specify the charges.
Kep provincial authorities said earlier that a committee had been formed to officially investigate the cause of the accident, which a provincial police official earlier said occurred when concrete was being poured on its top level.


The survivor found on Sunday morning was a young woman pulled from the rubble by members of Rapid Rescue Company 711, a military unit that is the country’s elite specialised emergency rescue team.
Hun Sen posted a video of the rescue on his Facebook page. He travelled to the site Friday “to lead the rescue team”, he announced on Facebook. He also visited the provincial hospital where the injured were being treated.

Cambodia is undergoing a construction boom, with hotels, high-rises and casinos springing up with little regulatory oversight.
The tough – and often dangerous – work is undertaken by an estimated 200,000 construction workers, mostly unskilled, reliant on day wages and not protected by union rules, according to the UN’s International Labour Organisation.
Sihanoukville’s big gamble: the sleepy beach town in Cambodia that bet its future on Chinese money
Worker advocacy groups point to low safety standards that raise the risk of accidents at construction sites – which often serve as the temporary homes for the labourers and their families.
Worker Ei Kosal said that he, his wife and two other women were having a meal on site when the building collapsed.

Their two companions were crushed and immediately killed.
“I did not expect to survive … it’s like I have just been reborn,” Kosal said while recuperating at the hospital.
Influx of Chinese business travellers, investors to Cambodia drives construction boom
In June, 28 people died after the collapse of a building under construction in Sihanoukville, a beach town flush with Chinese investment as Cambodia seeks to make it the “New Macau”.
In December, a Buddhist temple collapsed while under construction in Siem Reap, home of Cambodia’s famed Angkor temples, killing at least three people and injuring 13, including two monks.
Agence France-Presse , Reuters and Associated Press


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Cambodia building collapse: death toll jumps to 36 as search ends

Rescuers search for dead and survivors. Photo: AFP

A survivor (C) reacts after being rescued from the rubbles of an under-construction building collapsed on January 3, in southern Cambodia's coastal Kep province on January 4, 2020. - Hundreds of soldiers and rescuers frantically picked through the rubble of a collapsed building in southern Cambodia on January 4 looking for bodies as the death toll from the disaster rose to seven. (Photo by TANG CHHIN Sothy / AFP)

(200104) -- KEP, Jan. 4, 2020 (Xinhua) -- Aerial photo taken on Jan. 4, 2020 shows the site of a collapsed building in Kep city, Kep Province, Cambodia. Seven died and 18 others were injured after an under-construction building collapsed here on Friday. The rescue is going on as some people are still trapped under the collapsed building. (Photo by Van Pov/Xinhua)

Sihanoukville’s big gamble: the sleepy beach town in Cambodia that bet its future on Chinese money

Cambodians work on a high-rise building site in Sihanoukville. The city has been transformed by a construction boom driven by Chinese cash. Photo: AFP

Western NGO said the influx of Chinese investment made prices in Sihanoukville too high that local people, who cannot afford the housing rent, were driven out of the town. 23SEP19  SCMP/ Kristin Huang

Tem Ban (left) and his friend left their hometown near Phnom Penh in flooding season to make money in Sihanoukville. He said he's happy that he can earn a lot as a Tuk-tuk driver. 23SEP19  SCMP/ Kristin Huang

The factory of Enterex (Cambodia) Industrial Co., which is one of the over 160 factories in Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone. 23SEP19  SCMP/ Kristin Huang

The site of the Chinese owned building which was collapsed in Jun. 23SEP19  SCMP/ Kristin Huang

Jin Bei Casino in Sihanoukville. 23SEP19  SCMP/ Kristin Huang

Three killed as building collapses at Cambodian pagoda

A man cuts through metal reinforcements as rescuers search for victims at a construction site in Siem Reap on Monday. Photo: AFP

Cambodian rescuers search for victims from the collapse construction site in a Buddhist temple in Siem Reap on December 2, 2019. - Two workers died and ten others were seriously injured in the collapse of a dining hall under construction in a temple in Cambodia, police said December 2. (Photo by Rohany ISA / AFP)

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

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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Cambodian couple who owned the property and hired the construction workers detained by police for questioning
Country is undergoing a construction boom to serve growing crowds of Chinese tourists and investors



Seven-storey concrete building collapsed on Friday in the coastal town of Kep, about 160km southwest of the capital Phnom Penh.


Cambodia building collapse: death toll jumps to 36 as search ends

Cambodian couple who owned the property and hired the construction workers detained by police for questioning Country is undergoing a construction boom to serve growing crowds of Chinese tourists and investors

Cambodian couple who owned the property and hired the construction workers detained by police for questioning

Country is undergoing a construction boom to serve growing crowds of Chinese tourists and investors