Officials Probe Fatal Stampede in Cambodia ; Hundreds Killed After Mayhem On Bridge After Water Festival

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Cambodian officials are investigating why thousands of revelers panicked during a festival in Phnom Penh on Monday and stampeded across a narrow bridge, killing at least 378 people and injuring scores more.

Emergency teams, survivors and distraught relatives and friends desperately searched on Tuesday among corpses strewn on the bridge and floating in the river.

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Officials Probe Fatal Stampede in Cambodia ; Hundreds Killed After Mayhem On Bridge After Water Festival

Many of the dead were later laid on the ground in rows, under white cloth, at hospitals before being packed into coffins for cremation.

Police wearing white...

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