Truck crash leaves 4 Cambodian garment workers dead, 50 others injured

Two trucks, carrying Cambodian garment factory workers, crashed into each other Tuesday morning, claiming the lives of four female workers with some 50 others injured, a local official confirmed.

The accident took place at about 6:00 a.m. local time in Kong Pisei district in western Kampong Speu province when the two vehicles collided, leaving one truck turned upside down, said the district governor, Ma Savath.

"According to a preliminary report, four female workers were killed and some 50 others were wounded in the crash," he told Xinhua via telephone.

The injured workers had been sent to hospitals soon after the accident.

The two trucks were taking workers to factories when the accident happened, he added.

Transporting garment factory workers in open trucks to and from factories is common in this Southeast Asian country. On Dec. 31, some 34 garment workers got injured when their truck collided with a car in southeastern Svay Rieng province.