A Religious Ceremony Held at Helicopter Crash
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Svay Rieng Province: The local authorities and the bereaved whose family members had been killed in the helicopter crash, held a religious ceremony at the scene at 11 a.m. on Wednesday morning at Prey Keav village, Kampongchork commune, Svay Rieng province’s Rom Duol district. The purpose of the ceremony is to dedicate clothes gathered at the scene to the four dead crash victims. Reporters as well as the villagers were not allowed to access the scene. The scraps of the crashed helicopter have not moved until National Police Commissioner Hok Lundy funeral is finished. According to a relative of the land owner, state is attempted to purchase the land, where the helicopter had gone down, but it is not clear that the rumor is true.
