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Workers Missing as Dam Collapses in Cambodia

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Four workers are missing and presumed drowned after an under-construction dam partially collapsed in western Cambodia, officials said Sunday. Maj. Theang Leng, chief of the police in the district where the hydroelectric dam is located on the Atay river, said the midday Saturday collapse appeared to occur because the dam was holding too much water and had started leaking. A search was under way for the missing workers. Another four workers were seriously injured. Theang Leng said construction work has been temporarily halted as experts survey the damage. Although Cambodia has an electricity shortage, there has been criticism of building some dams because of environmental and social reasons. Yeat Thay, an auto repairman who lives near the site, said the dam's reservoir was completely emptied by the accident.

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