A Taiwanese-owned garment factory in Cambodia was destroyed by a large fire on Friday afternoon, killing one woman worker from China, a Taiwanese businessman said.

"Chinese workwoman Chen Qiaofen was killed by the large fire. The fire was sparked by an electrical short circuit," Jiang Yongxing, acting Chairman of Taiwan business Association in Cambodia, told Xinhua.

The dead women was from China's Zhejiang Province. And at least 10 people were injured, including three Chinese workmen, they have been sent to a Chinese-owned hospital in Phnom Penh.

The factory named as Chu Shing factory was located more than 10 km north of the capital Phnom Penh, and employed more than 4,000 workers, including more than 60 Chinese employees, most of them were technical workers.

The blaze consumed the warehouse and workers' house and Chen was killed when she wanted to save something from the fire, a witness, who declined to give her name, said.

Cambodia has more than 200 garment factories, mainly owned by China's Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. The garment industry is the one of main revenue resources of the country which employs more than 290,000 workers.

Officials of Chinese Embassy to Cambodia have hurried to the factory to help the victims and the investigation.

(Xinhua News Agency April 29, 2006)