Pickup overturns; 4 Cambodians killed

Pickup overturns; 4 Cambodians killed

A pickup truck overturn in Krabin Buri district in Prachin Buri province on Sunday, killing four Cambodians. (Photo by Manit Sanubboon)
A pickup truck overturn in Krabin Buri district in Prachin Buri province on Sunday, killing four Cambodians. (Photo by Manit Sanubboon)

PRACHIN BURI - Four Cambodians were killed and 20 others injured when a pickup truck overturned on Highway 359 in Kabin Buri district early Sunday, police said.

Pol Capt Sahawat Dathong, the duty officer at Wang Takhian police station, said the accident occurred at about 5am between kilometre markers 31 and 32 near Ban Non in tambon Wang Tachang of Krabin Buri district.

The pickup was taking 27 people, all of them Cambodian migrant workers and their children, from Bangkok and Chon Buri to the Cambodian border. The workers, who had been laid off from their jobs, hired the vehicle to take them to Sa Kaeo province to cross the border to go home.

Witnesses told police that they heard a loud noise, probably from the bursting of a tyre. The pickup suddenly swerved and overturned, spraying bodies everywhere. Two people were killed on the spot and two died on the way to hospital. Twenty were admitted to Kabin Buri Hospital.

The driver of the pickup truck fled the scene before the police arrived.

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