Head-on crash kills 4, injures 8 in east Cambodia

A cargo truck crashed into a band van early Monday in eastern Cambodia's Kampong Cham province, leaving at least four people dead and eight others injured, a local police officer said. "Four people died and eight others were injured as the two vehicles drove in an opposite direction and hit head-on," Lim Sothy, deputy traffic police chief of Kampong Cham province's Chomkar Leu district, where the accident happened, told Xinhua, adding that three of the dead were female. "They (victims) were musicians," he said, blaming the accident on high-speed driving and darkness at night. Death toll from road accidents remains high in Cambodia. Last year, some 1,950 people died of the accidents as 5,670 others seriously injured, according to the report of the Ministry of Public Works and Transport. The ministry estimated that the country lost about 300 million U.S. dollars a year due to the accidents.