Some of the victims’ bodies were expected to be transported back to Thailand Friday, he added.

“We found seven more bodies from rooms on the second floor,” Somboon said. Somboon Kwan-uam, with Thailand’s Poh Teck Tung Foundation, said smoke levels in the corridors were lower Friday after hampering earlier rescue efforts when many of the victims were found dead from smoke inhalation locked inside their hotel rooms. Thai rescuers who responded to emergency calls from Cambodian authorities said more bodies had been found trapped inside hotel rooms on Friday. The cause of the fire remains unknown and the Cambodian government has set up a committee to investigate, he said.Īt least 70 people were injured in the blaze, he said earlier. The death toll has risen to 24 following a huge fire that engulfed a casino complex in Cambodia as search and rescue operations resumed Friday with dozens still unaccounted for, according to authorities.īanteay Meanchey province spokesman Sek Sokhom told CNN that officials were now working to determine the nationalities of those killed in the blaze at the Grand Diamond City Hotel and Casino in Poipet, near the Thai border. POIPET, Cambodia, Dec 29 (Reuters) - At least 19 people, many of them Thais, were killed and up to 30 were missing after a fire tore through a casino-hotel complex in a Cambodian town on the.