Acid attack claims life

A 20-year-old woman who suffered serious burns earlier this month after being doused with acid passed away on Saturday, marking the first reported acid-attack fatality in Cambodia since 2012. On March 6, security guard Meas Vanny was walking from her rented room to begin a shift at Por Sen Chey district’s Ho Hsin Tai shoe factory, when 40-year-old Sroeun Nann approached her on a motorbike and asked her where she worked. … Nann, who has confessed to the attack, has been charged with attempted murder and is currently being held in pre-trial detention in the capital’s Prey Sar prison. …

Khouth Sophak Chakrya and Alice Cuddy
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