Herb seller charged over man’s death

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Kampot Provincial Court has charged a herbal supplement seller over the accidental death of a man who mixed the supplements with rice wine and downed the brew prematurely. Khan Sophal, deputy prosecutor and a spokesman for the provincial court, said yesterday that Ung Chhorn was arrested and charged with unintentional murder on Wednesday.

 

“We decided to charge him with unintentional murder and we sent him to the provincial prison,” he said. On February 14, a man died and another was sent to hospital in Vietnam after they drank rice wine and ate dog meat in Teuk Chhou district.

 

Deputy district police chief Sou Buntheoun said last week that the victims bought the rice wine and mixed it with a variety of herbal supplements about an hour prior to drinking it. “We questioned the herbal supplement seller about what kinds of herbs the victims put into the rice wine. He explained that those herbs were poisonous and the drinkers needed to soak them in the rice wine for at least seven to ten days before drinking it in order to make it safe,” he said.

 

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[Juan B Tong]

Brings to mind friendly herb sellers in the Russian market decades ago.