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| Police officials collect skulls and bones thought to be of Laurent Vallier and his children in Kompong Speu province Photo: REUTERS/Samrang Pring |
Cambodian police were investigating the deaths of five people yesterday – presumed to be a missing Frenchman and his four children – whose skeletal remains were found in a submerged car.
15 Jan 2012
The Telegraph (UK)
The white 4x4 vehicle owned by widower Laurent Vallier, 42, was retrieved from a pond behind his house in southern Kampong Speu province on Saturday. The family was last seen in September.
"We're still investigating the case. We can't confirm the cause of death," said Keo Pisey, provincial police chief.
An AFP reporter who visited the site saw at least four human skulls laid out on a white sheet next to the muddied vehicle, as well as an open suitcase.
Police officials and the French embassy in Phnom Penh said that it was impossible to immediately identify the victims because of the badly decomposed state of their bodies.
But Chhay Sinarith, director of the interior ministry's internal security department, said they were presumed to be Vallier and his children, aged two to 11, since four of the skulls appeared to be relatively small.
"We are still waiting for the results from the experts," he said.
"Now we are appealing for witnesses who may recognise the clothes and the shoes we found in the car. It's most likely the remains belong to the missing French family."
Chhay Sinarith initially said the bones of two children were found inside a suitcase, but a police officer close to the investigation told AFP that the case was broken and the bones might have drifted in there over time, as the car is thought to have lain submerged for weeks.
Among the dozens of onlookers gathered behind the police tape at the scene was Sar Savi, 42, the mother of Vallier's Cambodian wife, who died in childbirth in 2009. "I am in shock," she said.
Vallier's father-in-law Tith Chhuon, 69, said he believed the Frenchman and the children were murdered. "He would not commit suicide. I know his heart," he said.
Vallier, who according to his relatives worked as a tour guide, is thought to have moved from France to Cambodia around 12 years ago, arriving in Kampong Speu in 2007.
5 comments:
Can ah Kwack provide coverall hygine to the handler???
ឃាតករ ដៃដល់មែន នៅស្រុកខ្មែរ។ឱ្យតែអាមួយ
នោះបញ្ជា ទោះជនជាតិណា ក៏ពួកអាក្មេងស្ទាវ
ហ៊ានធ្វើដែរ នេះហើយប្រទេសគ្មានច្បាប់ទម្លាប់។
it's probably was a murder-suicide given this distraughted guy lost his wife to a childbirth in 2009. i feel sorry for the children he took with him, needlessly, you know!
"The family was last seen in September" Where, What time, by who, who had talked with the french man and his children, what was his phone number, check with phone company for those phone calls involved?
This are clues. Follow the clues and you will get more clues and eventually get to the cause of the murder.
A faster way is to put up some reward.
Leave it to the Cambodian forensic team expert. They're good at this type of field. Take the case of Hok Lundy for example. The expert showed up with a pencils and a clipboard and was able to ruled out the cause of the crash within hours of looking around. Whereas, in the US, the NTSB have to recover all of the wreckage, put it together from scratch and still unable to come up with an answer after 6 months of their investigation.
For some of you. This is sarcasm!
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