Angry voters riot in Stung Meanchey
Concerns
over ballot fraud and names being left off the voter list devolved into
a riot this afternoon in Phnom Penh’s Stung Meanchey district, and
angry residents have detained the polling station director inside the
pagoda, according to the district governor.
"A group of CNRP youth
didn't like the director of the station and kept her in the office,"
Meanchey district governor Kuch Chamroeun said this evening.
One
man was injured and sent to hospital after rioters threw rocks at him
when he attempted to get the woman out of the office, Chamroeun added.
Some
100 riot police, led by municipal police chief Choun Sovann, were
deployed to quell the demonstration, which remained ongoing while the
station director remains detained.
Separately, traffic police
shut down the Stung Meanchey bridge. One officer posted at the edge of
the road urged drivers to turn around.
“Please do not cross the
bridge. It is very dangerous,” he shouted through a loudspeaker. “They
are violent with the people and police. If you live nearby, please take
another way or another safe place."
Many
residents followed the instruction, running into their homes,
shuttering doors and windows, after police let out a volley of shots
into the air.
"I do not know what's happened, but I just know it
is very messy,” said a resident decamped in his home, who declined to
give his name due to the sensitivity of the situation.
At least
two military police vehicles were wrecked by rioters, who pelted them
with rocks before overturning the cars and setting them ablaze.
1 comment:
CNRP cannot stop now...please fight on for the true democracy of our homeland!!!
Go get the NEC by the neck now!!!
Ah Hun Sen got his wings clipped and retracts his head just like a scary turtle now!!!
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