PHNOM PENH, A truck transporting garment workers to their factory, flipped onto its side, in the south-western Kampong Speu province, yesterday, leaving 27 people wounded, a senior police officer said.

The accident took place in Oudong district, when the truck, carrying a total of 50 workers, skidded off a curving road and overturned, said Brigadier General, Tap Lorn, deputy police chief of Kampong Speu province.

“Twenty-seven workers were hurt, with 11 sustaining serious injuries,” he told media. “Speeding was blamed for the accident.”

The driver fled the scene soon after the crash, Lorn said, adding that, the injured, including 26 women and one man, had been rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment.

Transporting workers in open trucks, to and from factories, is not uncommon in the country. On Mar 30, about 20 garment workers got injured, when their truck collided with a car in the south-eastern Svay Rieng province.

The country’s multi-billion-U.S. dollar garment industry, comprises some 1,000 factories, employing around 750,000 workers, mostly female, according to the Ministry of Labour.

Source: Nam News Network