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POIPET: As many as 10 people have died in a fire at a Cambodian hotel-casino on the border with Thailand, with photos showing groups desperately huddled on ledges as fierce flames surrounded them.
Cause of fire at The Grand Diamond City casino and hotel was not immediately clear, but head of Banteay Meanchey provincial information department, says that blaze may have been due to electrical short circuit
POIPET, Cambodia: An electrical fault caused the devastating Poipet casino fire that killed 27 people, many of them Thais, Cambodian authorities said on Saturday.