Cambodia Water Festival in Phnom Penh 2010

After the dead, the dying and the injured had been removed, the hundreds of abandoned shoes that littered Diamond Island's north bridge still served as a grim reminder of the chaos that had last night turned one of the most joyful events in the Cambodian calendar to tragedy. The crush is thought to have started at around 10pm, on the third and final day of the Water festival, which is estimated to attract around a third of the country's 14 million population each year to Cambodia's capital, Phnom Penh.