Cambodia Searches for Stampede Cause -- 'People Were Just Walking Here and There and All of Sudden, People Started to Run'

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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia - At the bridge where investigators poked though the debris of a disaster - abandoned flip-flops and sneakers, water bottles, pieces of sugar cane - Chea Chan lit a Buddhist memorial offering of incense, coconut and lotus flowers, and wept.

The 28-year-old had tried to grab his younger brother during the riverside stampede that left at least 378 dead Monday night, but he was pushed against the support poles of the narrow suspension bridge. His brother fell down and immediately was crushed under four or five other falling people.

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Cambodia Searches for Stampede Cause -- 'People Were Just Walking Here and There and All of Sudden, People Started to Run'

He found his dead sibling at a local hospital, with a broken ...

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