Phnom Penh (FN), May 18 – Within five months of this year of 2016 a total of 29 people were killed and 35 others were injured by lighting while even were killed and 97 others were injured by tornado that have struck over 5,000 households, Senior Nhim Vanda, First Deputy Chairman of the National Committee for Disaster Management, told the press on May 18, 2016.

For the first five months of this year, a total of 111 cases of tornado, or heavy storms have hit the country; a large increase compared with the same kind of disasters last year.

“A total of 5,110 households were either totally or partly destroyed by tornado, typhoon, heavy storms and lightning of which 44o households could be repaired,” Vanda emphasized.
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