Everyday.com.kh
Translated from Khmer by Socheata
The deputy military police (PM) commander for Phnom Penh City was killed by armed men in the evening of 09 September, right in the middle of the City of Phnom Penh. Local newspapers report that Lieutenant Colonel Reth Nyka, the deputy PM commander for the City of Phnom Penh, was shot and killed. Eyewitnesses said that 27-year-old Reth Nyka was shot by a man wearing a white shirt, armed with two handguns, near Wat Saravoan pagoda, Watt Phnom commune, Daun Penh district. The armed man shot Reth Nyka several times on his head. Reth Nyka was transported by ambulance to the Calmette hospital, but because his injuries were too severe, the doctors could not save him, and he died. His body was sent to Wat Langka pagoda for religious ceremony. The Srah Chak police said that the suspect in the shooting of Reth Nyka was immediately apprehended by the authority and sent to the city PM headquarters. There is no indication yet on the motive of the shooting. Reth Nyka was the former deputy PM commander in the Kandal province, he was recently transferred to the city of Phnom Penh.
2 comments:
Someone higher up must have wanted him dead. Hired a hitman to go after him.
Or two higher-ups are in war!
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