Floods abate, but villagers still isolated
Although floodwaters are receding, an unknown number of villages in several provinces remain accessible only by boat, and the extent of the damage has yet to be fully assessed, according to aid workers and the latest “situation update” from the United Nations Disaster Management Team. “In the two provinces of Prey Veng and Kampong Cham, the most affected districts are still under water and unreachable by road,” the November 18 update said. Anlong Chrey village in Kampong Cham province’s Batheay district, for example, remains an islet that takes more than an hour to reach by boat. It had been entirely submerged for about a month, after the Mekong River, eight kilometres to the west, and the Tonle Sap River, 35 kilometres to the east, overflowed their banks and converged in mid-September, residents said…
