Search on for missing teen in Battambang, UPDATE Missing Battambang teenager slain, killer arrested

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Khouth Sophak Chakrya

More than 100 Battambang police officers are searching for a young woman and a man suspected of involvement in her disappearance from a village in Sangke district’s O’Dambang I commune on Tuesday.

Sangke district acting police chief Som Sovann said 18-year-old Chham Sreyroth, disappeared from Wat Tamim village at about 9pm.

“According to the girl’s mother, her daughter was dragged by a man from the house into the Stung Sangke river just as she was about to go to bed,” he said.

read more: http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/search-missing-teen-battambang

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Missing Battambang teenager slain, killer arrested

Fri, 13 November 2015

Khouth Sophak Chakrya

The search for a young woman reported missing this week in Battambang province ended tragically yesterday, with the discovery of her body in the Stung Sangke River, though police also announced the arrest of her alleged killer.

According to police, suspect Chan Kosal confessed that he had stalked the victim, 18-year-old Chham Sreyroth, with the express purpose of raping her, then killed her when she resisted.

On the night of the murder, he said, he hid in a patch of bamboo by the river and waited, knowing that she liked to wander alone after helping her mother with the daily chores.

read more: http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/missing-battambang-teenager-slain-killer-arrested

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time and time again we get these sad headlines but never any follow up, so basically it is a waste of time even reading them, what is the good of half a story >> ??, anyone ??