Thursday, November 25, 2010

Koh Pich Tragedy: The arduous task of identifying the victims (Photos: AFP, AP, Reuters)

 These photos are from here.   They are typical of what has been on TV the last few days. I turned on the TV yesterday and it was showing footage of people walking up and down rows of bodies, lifting the sheet up on each head until they found someone they knew.
In between this they kept replaying scenes from the night it happened, of people and bodies arriving at hospitals. They were piled up in police utes and ambulance vans. It looked like bodies and injured people were all piled in together. Chaos. Peoples shoes and clothes had come off in the crowd.

Also reporters were going around talking to survivors and the victims family and friends. Really shocking stories.

Today on TV a few of the channels are showing people lining up to get money- or maybe they are donating money, I just saw it briefly. They were reading out lists of names and amounts of money.

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