At least 127 Cambodian garment workers at six different factories got fainted on Friday due to poor health, a local police chief confirmed.

Yim Socheat, police chief of Phnom Penh's Dangkor district, where the incidents occurred, said the victims had been sent to hospitals soon after the incidents and all of them had recovered after medical treatment. "We preliminarily concluded that workers got fainted because of their poor health," he said."Our experts inspected the factories and found no any problems with environment or chemical substances."

He said after the incidents, the factories allowed other workers to take a day-off.

Mass fainting has subsequently occurred in Cambodian garment factories. Last year, 823 workers got fainted in various factories due mainly to overwork, poor health, exposure to chemical substances and hysteria, according to the report of the Ministry of Labor.

Garment and footwear industry comprises 960 factories with some 620,000 workers. The sector is the kingdom's largest foreign exchange earner that generated nearly 3 billion U.S. dollars in revenues in the first six months of 2014.

A monthly minimum wage is 100 U.S. dollars. Endi

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