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WORLD NEWS Monday 24 June 2019

Rescuers try to remove the rubble at the site of a collapsed
building in Preah Sihanouk province, Cambodia, Sunday, June
23, 2019.
Associated Press

Cambodia PM to In this image made from video, Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announces a failed coup as
he addresses the public on television, Sunday, June 23, 2019.
oversee rescue operation Associated Press

at building collapse Ethiopia says military chief

By HENG SINITH and SO- who were involved with the killed, regional coup failed
PHENG CHEANG project.
Associated Press Construction workers said
SIHANOUKVILLE, Cambo- the unfinished building By ELIAS MESERET ney general was wounded, sociated Press on condition
dia (AP) — Cambodian doubled as their hous- Associated Press he said. of anonymity because they
Prime Minister Hun Sen said ing, with the crew spend- ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) Not long after afterward, were not authorized to talk
Sunday that he was head- ing nights on the second — Ethiopia's military chief army chief Gen. Seare to the media.
ing to the seaside resort floor. Nhor Chandeun and was shot to death by his Mekonnen who assassi- Addis Ababa was peaceful
town where a seven-story his wife were asleep when bodyguard amid a failed nated at his home in Addis on Sunday as soldiers stood
building under construction at around 4 a.m. Saturday coup attempt against a re- Ababa, and a retired army guard in Meskel Square
collapsed, killing at least 19 they heard a loud noise gional government north of general visiting him was and set up roadblocks
workers and injuring 24. and the building crumbled the capital, Addis Ababa, also killed, the spokesman throughout the city. Ethio-
Hun Sen said he would on top of them. the prime minister said Sun- said. pia's internet appeared to
oversee the rescue op- "All the workers were day. "There is a link between the be shut down.
eration at the site in Siha- asleep," the 31-year-old The abortive coup Satur- two attacks," Nigussu said The attempted coup was
noukville, where the build- said from a hospital in the day in the Amhara region without elaborating. the latest challenge to
ing collapsed early Satur- city. "A moment before the was led by a high-ranking The attack in Bahir Dar, the Abiy, who was elected last
day on top of dozens of building collapsed it was military officer and others capital of Amhara, was led year.
workers sleeping inside. vibrating and then it was in the armed forces, said by a renegade brigadier The 42-year-old Abiy has
Rescuers have been dig- falling down. But it was too Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who had recently been captured the imagination
ging through the twisted quick to escape." who addressed the nation pardoned by the prime of many with his political
metal and concrete rubble The Ministry of Labor and on state TV at 2 a.m. while minister after being jailed and economic reforms,
in search of anyone buried, Vocational Training said wearing fatigues. by the previous govern- including the surprise ac-
with the latest body pulled that 30 workers were at The soldiers attacked a ment, authorities said. Most ceptance of a peace
out Sunday night. the site when the build- building where a meeting of the perpetrators were agreement with Eritrea, the
Provincial authorities said ing collapsed, but Nhor of regional officials was tak- captured, and others were opening of major state-
as of Sunday afternoon, Chandeun said there were ing place, said Nigussu Tila- being hunted down, the owned sectors to private
half of the debris at the about 55-60 people inside hun, a spokesman for the spokesman said. investment and the release
site had been cleared. Au- the building. prime minister. The regional The brigadier remained at of thousands of prisoners,
thorities, meanwhile, have It wasn't immediately clear governor and an adviser large, according to two of- including opposition figures
questioned four Chinese what caused the collapse. were killed, while the attor- ficials who spoke to The As- once sentenced to death.