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20 injured as truck transporting Cambodian garment workers overturns

Xinhua, October 27, 2016 Adjust font size:

A truck transporting garment factory workers flipped onto its side on the eastern outskirts of Phnom Penh on Thursday morning, leaving 20 workers seriously injured, a Cambodian Labor Ministry spokesman said.

The truck overturned when its neglect driver attempted to overtake a tuk-tuk at high speed.

"The injured workers had been sent to hospitals soon after the accident and the National Social Security Fund will cover for their medical expenses," Labor Ministry spokesman Heng Sour told Xinhua.

Transporting factory workers in open trucks to and from factories is common in the Southeast Asian country. On Tuesday, some 30 garment workers in northern Kampong Chhnang province were injured when their truck overturned after colliding with a tourist bus.

The country's 6.5 billion-U.S. dollar garment industry is comprised of some 1,000 factories, employing around 750,000 workers. Endit