51.   Authorities shifted hundreds of villagers to safer places after their thatched huts were destroyed.

52.   The paper said it found dozens of hungry villagers nursing bayonet and knife wounds sheltering under trees as they helplessly watched their thatched huts smouldering.

53.   Those fires engulfed shanty towns built of thatched huts and scrap timber on empty land on the banks of the Bassac and Tonle Sap rivers.

54.   The victims died when the fire gutted their thatched huts.

55.   Royal Cambodian Army troops could be seen on the other side strolling with their families amid a few thatched huts on stilts.