Pov Panhapich opened her eyes as she regains consciousness (Photo: Bunry, Koh Santepheap newspaper)Feb 26, 2007
DPA
Phnom Penh - Police said Monday they still had no leads on the daylight shooting of a popular young Cambodian singer on a busy city street last week.
Senior Daun Penh penal police officer Yim Socheat said police were still baffled as to who shot Pov Panhapich Friday morning as she made her way to English college despite interviewing a number of eyewitnesses. He said they had also found no motive.
'We are continuing the investigation but we have no answers yet,' he said.
Local newspaper Koh Santepheap said the 24-year-old singer's shooting was eerily similar in its modus operandi to the shooting of another singer, Touch Srey Nich, in 2003. Srey Nich was paralysed but survived.
National icon and classical dancer Piseth Pilika died after being shot in 1999. No one was ever arrested in connection with either of those shootings.
However, Pilika was thought to have been shot because of links to a high ranking official, and Srey Nich sang political songs, but Panhapich was a pure pop singer with no romantic ties, according to her management, so a motive for the crime remains a mystery, police said.
Panhapich was in hospital in Vietnam in a stable condition according to media reports and was expected to survive.
Many Cambodians believe that keeping the images of anyone outside their immediate family circle, especially women, who have been murdered or even disfigured brings bad luck, so even if the artists survive the attacks, their popular careers are usually effectively ended.
Attacks on young women are not uncommon and usually blamed on jealousy stemming from love triangles.
Senior Daun Penh penal police officer Yim Socheat said police were still baffled as to who shot Pov Panhapich Friday morning as she made her way to English college despite interviewing a number of eyewitnesses. He said they had also found no motive.
'We are continuing the investigation but we have no answers yet,' he said.
Local newspaper Koh Santepheap said the 24-year-old singer's shooting was eerily similar in its modus operandi to the shooting of another singer, Touch Srey Nich, in 2003. Srey Nich was paralysed but survived.
National icon and classical dancer Piseth Pilika died after being shot in 1999. No one was ever arrested in connection with either of those shootings.
However, Pilika was thought to have been shot because of links to a high ranking official, and Srey Nich sang political songs, but Panhapich was a pure pop singer with no romantic ties, according to her management, so a motive for the crime remains a mystery, police said.
Panhapich was in hospital in Vietnam in a stable condition according to media reports and was expected to survive.
Many Cambodians believe that keeping the images of anyone outside their immediate family circle, especially women, who have been murdered or even disfigured brings bad luck, so even if the artists survive the attacks, their popular careers are usually effectively ended.
Attacks on young women are not uncommon and usually blamed on jealousy stemming from love triangles.
9 comments:
I feel so sorry for her and hope she will survive...and we will know who is/are involved. I don’t know if she did something wrong; Even though she did something wrong, this is not the right way to execute her- she might not do anything wrong at all. Who know???
chances of catching the killers are zero or they will arrest a fake killer like they did to chea vichea killing.
yuon hun shit and hok long dey are good at that.
they ar e good only catching their own people like heng pov, and innocent people.
Why should we end the bitch
nightmare? It's better to let her
died slowly from the suspense
than to let her died quickly.
KHMENG WAT KHNONG SROK
TO
BUNHEANG, KHMER THIUE KY, KHMER SAM RAINSHIT, KHMER SVA AND DERACHHANN , KHMER GANGS AS THE IMPOSTER FOR BEING KHMENG WAT KHNONG SROK AND KIMADAY! THEY ARE THE TRAITORS, THE IMPOSTERS AND THE INFIDELS OF THE KHMER NATION AND RELIGION.
I URGE TO ALL KHMENG WAT AROUND THE STATES , CANADA AND AUSTRALIA!
IF YOU CAN CATCH THEM AS ABOVE MENTIONNED:
1- HACKED THEM TO DEATH
2-CLUBBED TO DEATH
3-BOMBED THEIR CAGES OF SHIT AND BURNED TO DEATH
4- HANGED THEM TO DEATH
AND THEY WILL REBORN AS HUMANS AGAIN.
GOD FORGIVES ME....
THEY DESERVED TO BE TREATED AS SUCH!!!! SATHOUK... SATHOUK...SATHOUK AND AMEN!
KHMENG WAT KHNONG SROK
Well the police never find the gunman, because the gunman is police. The police boss is a criminal, why not his KON CHOV. The
coconut fruit not fall to far away
from coconut tree.
Bati
The culture of impunity continues in Cambodia. In most of the world murder is done is secret; but not in Cambodia.
In the middle of the day, in a crown city, with witness every where a killer committed his act without concern.
And the authority is clueless-they see nothing, hear nothing, and know nothing.
CHEYO SOMDECH KHMENG WAT KHNONG SROK.
CHEYO SOMDECH 4:20PM.
Learn English , people.
To Anonymous 12:22 PM, LOL yeah, i don't understand any of this stuff.
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