Cambodia Charges 7, Including Chinese, in Building Collapse

Rescuers enter a victim onto an ambulance at a site of a collapse in Preah Sihanouk Province, Cambodia on June 23, 2019. Rescuers on June 24 were continuing to search the rubble of a building that collapsed while under construction in a Cambodia beach town, killing dozens of workers as they slept in the unfinished condominium that was doubling as their housing. Preah Sihanouk provincial authorities via AP

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia–A court in Cambodia said on June 25 that seven people, including four Chinese nationals, have been charged with crimes related to a building collapse that killed 28 construction workers who were sleeping in the unfinished structure that doubled as their housing.

The Preah Sihanouk provincial court said the Chinese owner of the building in Sihanoukville was charged with unintentional homicide, involuntarily causing injuries and aggravating circumstances that cause injury. The Chinese builder, two Chinese building site managers and three other people of unspecified nationalities were charged with conspiracy to commit those crimes.