At least six people were killed and four others were injured in a truck upside down in early Saturday in the country's eastern province of Kompong Cham, some 120 kilometers east of Phnom Penh, a district police said Saturday.

Lay Nguon, Kroch Chmar District police chief said by telephone that "three people died on the spot and other three died at the hospital, while other four people are hospitalizing." The driver escaped the scene after the accident, he added.

Of the six deaths, including two boys at their ages of two and four and three women ages 18 and 30.

The accident happened at 1:30 a.m. on Saturday as a truck carried 26 workers from a farm in Ratanakiri province to visit their homeland in Kampong Cham province during Khmer New Year next week, he said.

Lay Nguon said the South Korean mini truck overturned at the point as the road was slippery following heavy rainfall.

Cambodia is alarmed with the increase of traffic accident across the nation over the past several years.

Road accidents claimed 1,709 lives in Cambodia in 2010.