UPDATED - Alcohol cited as cause in N Koreans’ deaths

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Khouth Sophak Chakrya

Two North Korean doctors died on Saturday from apparent alcohol poisoning in circumstances police initially deemed suspicious.

Dr An Hyong Chan, 56, and Dr Rimun Chol, 50, died in the clinic that doubles as their home on Street 594 in Phnom Penh’s Tuol Kork district, after an evening of eating and drinking with their wives and 10 other North Koreans, according to Boeung Kak II commune police chief Khan Khun Tith.

“According to the autopsy report, the victims both died of a heart attack,” he said, adding that when police arrived at the victims’ home they found 14 North Korean nationals there, along with the dead doctors’ wives.

read more: http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/alcohol-cited-cause-n-koreans-deaths

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Two doctors dying from heart attacks related to alcohol poisoning.

But the other 16 people present had no health issues.

So police only "initially deemed suspicious" the two deaths?

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case closed

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Obviously a double suicide.....

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The intriguing deaths of two North Korean doctors in Cambodia

Two men died of heart attacks apparently after their wives, also doctors, injected them with medicine to counteract effects of alcohol

North Korea is no stranger to unexplained deaths among its citizens, but the simultaneous and sudden demise of two of its expatriate doctors at the weekend is intriguing even by Pyongyang’s standards.

The doctors, An Hyong-chan, 56, and Chol Ri-mun, 50, died in the Cambodian capital, Phnom Penh, late on Friday or early on Saturday after suffering heart attacks. That they died at around the same time from the same cause and in the same location is just the beginning of the tale.

The men, who worked at a clinic that also served as their home in the city’s Tuol Kork district, reportedly died after their wives – also doctors – injected them with an unnamed drug to counteract the effects of an evening of heavy drinking.

The women grew concerned after their husbands developed fevers, abnormal heartbeats and weak pulses after the couples returned home from a night out with 10 other North Koreans, during which the two men had drunk “numerous cocktails”, according to the Phnom Penh Post.

The women told local police they had injected their husbands with “a medicine and a serum” to counteract the effects of the alcohol, and that the men died of heart attacks about an hour later, the newspaper said.

more :

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jan/05/two-north-korean-doctors-die-cambodia-intrigue