Angkor Wat tourists in dramatic rescue
More than 180 tourists were airlifted from Cambodia’s Angkor temple complex yesterday after a road to one of the ruins was cut off by flash floods, officials said.
Three helicopters rescued visitors stranded at one of hundreds of ancient temples at the World Heritage site, after 16 hours of heavy rain inundated the access road.
A local district governor said 183 tourists were affected, including nationals from the US, Britain, Germany, China and South Korea.
Large areas of the country have been waterlogged in recent days, with rivers bursting their banks and flooding across towns and thousands of hectares of rice paddies.
A low-pressure system developing over northern Cambodia is expected to bring more heavy floods in coming days.
Ian Jarrett
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