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    Memories of Phnom Penh crowd crush refuse to fade for some

    Nov 6, 2025

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    Danielle Keeton-Olsen, Ly Lin
    Danielle Keeton-Olsen

    During Water Festival 15 years ago, more than 350 people died on a Phnom Penh bridge in one of the deadliest crowd-crush cases in recent history. Families and onlookers then and now spoke of ghosts, gangs and electric shocks to try to make sense of the tragedy.

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