Flood Death Toll Surpasses 100

The death toll in Cambodia’s worst flooding in seven decades has surpassed 100, and fears of food shortages have increased, the secretary-general of the National Committee for Disaster Relief said. Peou Samy said 12 more people were reported killed in recent days in the southeastern province of Kompong Cham, raising the nationwide death toll since July to 109. Most of the latest deaths were by drowning during evacuations. With expectations that the raging Mekong River will recede soon, the next worry for officials is whether evacuees will have enough to eat, Peou Samy said.