Officers from the Banteay Meanchey provincial land management department – in collaboration with engineers and construction workers hired by Grand Diamond City Hotel and Casino – have carried out the demolition operation on one of the buildings that was destroyed by fire on December 28.

Rescue workers on Friday morning gained access to the upper floors of the 355-room Grand Diamond City Hotel and Casino in Poipet, in Cambodia, after most of the casino was razed by a 12-hour blaze that erupted in its main gambling room late on Wednesday night, witnesses told The Nation.