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From: "Sajjad Lateef" <sajjadlateef_at_yahoo.com>
To: <nanfa_at_aquaria.net>
Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 12:52 PM
Subject: NANFA-- News: Teen Dies After Prized Fish Stuck in Throat
> Note: Per FishBase, kantrob/kantrawb is the Kissing gourami
> (Helostoma temminckii) .
>
> If you do go collecting and catch a fish with your bare hands,
> please keep this incident in mind.
>
> -- Sajjad
>
> Teen Dies After Prized Fish Stuck in Throat
>
> PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - A Cambodian teenager died of suffocation after a
> fish he caught jumped out of his hands and lodged in his throat,
> newspapers reported on Tuesday.
>
> Lim Vanthan, 17, and his family were planting rice at the weekend near
> their home on the outskirts of the impoverished Southeast Asian
> nation's capital, when they decided to go for a swim.
>
> During his dip, Lim Vanthan caught a prized eight-inch fish, called
> kantrob in Cambodian, with his hands.
>
> But the high school student's excitement was short-lived when his catch
> squirmed out of his hands and jumped into his mouth, where it became
> stuck because of barbs running down its back.
>
> He died of suffocation before he could receive treatment at a local
> clinic, the newspapers said.
>
> "This is an accident, but it shows we must all be careful," concluded
> the Khmer-language Rasmei Kampuchea (Light of Cambodia) newspaper.
> "Accidents can happen at any time."
>
>
> =====
> --
> Sajjad Lateef
> sajjad_at_acm.org
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