Pagoda dance ends in death

CEOCambodiaNews · Post by **CEOCambodiaNews** » Sat Apr 29, 2017 4:18 am

Soldier killed after pagoda dance

A military soldier died after he and his friends were set upon by a rival group when a fight broke out during a dance at a pagoda.Hai Sineth, 18, a soldier at military division 2 in Siem Reap province, died in the provincial hospital on Tuesday night after being taken there with multiple sword wounds.

District police chief Voeun Saravy said Mr. Sineth was among six men attacked by a much larger group in Banteay Srey district’s Khna Sanday commune.

“We are still trying to establish the identities of those involved,” said Mr. Saravy. “We believe there were five other men with Mr. Sineth, none of them injured, and that the number in the rival group was about 15.”

Mr. Saravy traced the source of the dispute to a fight between the two groups on the pagoda dance floor earlier on.
“They first clashed during the dance in the pagoda. The deadly attack took place when the dancing was over at around 11pm,” he said.
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CEOCambodiaNews · Post by **CEOCambodiaNews** » Sat Apr 29, 2017 11:10 am

It was yet another happy wedding party...

Suspect on the Run After Murder of Dance Rival
April 28, 2017
Police were searching on Thursday for a man who allegedly stabbed a fellow wedding guest to death on Wednesday night after a scuffle broke out on the dance floor in Kompong Speu province’s Kong Pisei district, an official said.

Tuy Then, deputy district police chief, said the suspect and victim were members of two different groups that had been mocking each other at a wedding party in Prey Vihear commune all night.
Mr. Then said Moeuk Panha, 22, stabbed U Neang, 33, at about 11:30 p.m. with a sharp metal object that he retrieved from his pocket after the pair bumped into each other while dancing.

“This murder was caused by two groups of drinkers mocking each other at the wedding party,” he said...
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