Slain Journalist’s Mobile Phone Yields Clues
Police investigating the murder of a journalist whose battered body was discovered in Ratanakkiri province on Tuesday have unearthed key clues to who may have carried out the killing, an official said yesterday. Hang Serei Odom, 42-who had written exposes on the involvement of powerful people in forest crimes-is the first journalist to have been murdered in Cambodia in four years. … Ratanakkiri provincial police chief Ray Rai said the investigation had already yielded leads from the reporter’s mobile phone and belongings, which were left in the car. He said police had identified Metphone mobile phone number that had been used to call the victim at about the time he left his home for the last time on Sunday evening, telling his wife he was going to meet someone named “Mr. Heng.” …
