Off-duty cop ‘on drugs’ wounded in shootout with capital police

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Mech Dara and Alessandro Marazzi Sassoon

An off duty police officer with what family said was a long history of drug abuse was shot three times by police on Friday night in Phnom Penh’s Daun Penh district, after first allegedly shooting a commune police chief in the chest.

Thirty-year-old Sin Sereysothea Thirith, of the Phnom Penh Municipal Penal Police, had taken drugs on Friday night and was in a frenzied state when the incident occurred, according to his father, 62-year-old Sin Nheng.

“I told him many times to calm down, but he did not, so I called the commune police,” he said.

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