Progress on the terrible tragedy of the fire at the Grand Diamond City Hotel and Casino in Poipet Cambodian border town Only about 200 meters from the Thai border in the middle of the night until the morning of December 29th. Thai firefighters and rescue teams managed to recover the victims from the ruins of the Grand Casino. Diamond, which was badly damaged in a major fire in late 2022, is still missing at least 33 bodies and 49 people, whose fate is unknown. Until Saturday 31st December past.
Foreign news agencies reported on December 31, 2022 that at that time, the exact cause of the fire was still unknown immediately at the Grand Diamond casino in Poipet, but Mr. Sek Sokhom, Bante Provincial Information Division Chief, Ye Mean Chey of Cambodia told Reuters that the cause of the fire at the Grand Diamond Casino was a short circuit.
After a terrible fire broke out at the Grand Diamond casino, fire and rescue teams from Thailand were deployed across the border to help contain the blaze. Help and find the injured AND recover the deceased body from the remains of the Grand Diamond casino in Poipet. While many victims were transported to various hospitals in Thailand
According to Eung Buleng, one of the survivors He told VOA news agency that there were people trapped in the upper floor of the hotel very scared and you don’t know how to escape. He thinks everyone would be safe with more fire trucks. An estimated 400 Grand Diamond casino guests and staff broke out.
Yong Kim Eng, president of the People’s Center for Development and Peace which is a non-profit organization Interrogating the security system of the Grand Diamond hotel and casino on this side of Poipet. He said it is very sad for Cambodia that many skyscrapers don’t have good security systems. This tragedy should lead to a reassessment of the safety of skyscrapers in Cambodia.
