{"id":43377,"date":"2019-09-23T09:00:29","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T01:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=43377"},"modified":"2019-09-23T09:04:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T01:04:52","slug":"flood-death-toll-in-cambodia-rises-to-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=43377","title":{"rendered":"Flood Death Toll In Cambodia Rises To 16"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>PHNOM PENH, Sept 23 (NNN-AKP) &#8211; Mekong River floods, and flash floods in other places, have so far caused 16 people dead and five others injured in, Keo Vy, a spokesman for the National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM), said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among the dead were seven children, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The floods hit parts of eight provinces out of the kingdom&#8217;s 25 cities and provinces, since early this month, he said, adding that, affected provinces include Kratie, Stung Treng, Kampong Cham, Tboung Khmum, Kampong Thom, Prey Veng, Kandal and Preah Vihear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;About 89,722 families were affected, and 14,583 of them were evacuated to higher ground,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The spokesman added that, some 68,780 houses and 59,242 hectares of rice fields and other crops have also been inundated with floodwaters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Floods usually hit Cambodia between Aug and Oct. Last year, Mekong River and flash floods killed a total of 63 people, according to the NCDM.&#8211; NNN-AKP  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHNOM PENH, Sept 23 (NNN-AKP) &#8211; Mekong River floods, and flash floods in other places, have so far caused 16 people dead and five others injured in, Keo Vy, a spokesman for the National Committee for Disaster Management (NCDM), said. Among the dead were seven children, he said. The floods hit parts of eight provinces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":43379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,286,198],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43377"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43377\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/43379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}