Tuesday, December 03, 2013

Hordes of people travel to be healed by two-year-old boy...

ABOUT 1000 people, many in wheelchairs, some carrying children with contorted bodies or mangled limbs, line up along the rutted dirt track leading to a wooden stilt home.

They are desperately hoping to be cured by Kong Keng, a two-year-old boy.

"We discovered my son was magical when his grandfather got sick and the boy healed him," says Phat Soeun, without elaborating further.

Since rumours spread in October that he could cure the sick, hundreds of desperate people have travelled each day to the village in Kompong Cham province, about a three-hour drive from the capital.

The boy's family is charging visitors, mainly Cambodia's rural poor, about $1 each to receive his blessing.

The crowds became so huge - after news of the boy spread in the national media - that by late October the boy and his mother were hiding out at a relative's house to escape the hordes. Full story...

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