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An ill villager receives an intravenous injection at the Kratie Provincial Referral Hospital in Kratie province, Cambodia on May 5, 2018. The death toll from drinking contaminated water in eastern Cambodia's Kratie province has risen to 10, as 121 others were hospitalized, Om Phy, deputy police chief of Kratie province, said Sunday. Villagers in Sre Non village, the tiny indigenous people's village in Chitborey district, have fallen ill and died subsequently since Thursday after they reportedly drank contaminated water from a canal in the village. (Xinhua/Kim Heat)
