Partially Burned Body Discovered

District police officers are trying to find the people who killed a man and attempted to burn his body and destroy the evidence of their crime on a farm in Battambang province’s Phnom Prek district. Pich Chenda commune police chief San Nget told Khmer Times yesterday that police went to the crime scene in Phnom Touch village after villagers discovered the partially burned body at about 9pm on Sunday.
 

“The victim was killed by chopping his head and his body was beaten before they burned him in a pile of hay in an effort to destroy the evidence, but the body did not completely burn,” he said. Mr. Nget said nobody could identify the victim at first, but later someone recognized him and contacted his family to take the body for funeral services at his home in a different commune.
 

“His family members told police that the victim was a gentle man who had no conflicts or ill will with anyone,” said Mr. Nget, adding that the 20-year-old victim, Sok Sovanda, had been a farmer. Mr. Nget said he could not speak in detail about the investigative process, only saying that police were seeking to arrest the suspects who they believe had initially robbed the victim.

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