Status: 29.12.2022 7:14 a.m
A fire broke out at a casino hotel in Cambodia. According to police, at least ten people died. More than 30 were injured. The cause of the fire in the border region with Thailand is still unclear.
According to media reports, a fire at a casino hotel in north-west Cambodia has killed several people and injured dozens. A local police chief spoke of at least ten fatalities and 30 injuries. A representative of the provincial government said that at least seven people were killed and 53 were injured.
The fire in the “Grand Diamond City Hotel and Casino” in Poipet on the border with neighboring Thailand broke out around midnight yesterday for reasons that have not yet been clarified and was still burning in the morning.
Hotel popular with Thai people
Video footage circulating online showed the hotel on fire and several people apparently jumping out of the burning building. According to media reports, foreign nationals were also in the casino at the time of the fire.
Firefighters are on duty in the Cambodian border town of Poipet after a fire broke out at the Grand Diamond City Hotel.
Image: AFP
According to the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs, several injured people were taken to hospitals in Thailand’s Sa Kaeo province. A volunteer with Thai rescue organization Ruamkatanyu Foundation said the fire started on the first floor of the building and then spread quickly.
More than 400 people were in the building, most of them Thai, the newspaper The Phnom Penh Post quoted a spokesman for the city administration as saying. Helicopters were also used in the rescue work, said a spokesman for civil protection. Thai broadcaster PBS reported that the hotel on the border is popular with Thais because gambling is banned in their country.