Daughter finds mother badly buried; stepfather on the run.

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Daughter finds mother badly buried; stepfather on the run.

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Husband Sought Over Buried Wife
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Police are hunting a man who allegedly killed his wife and buried her body near Rattanakiri province’s Banlung town.
“We found the body on Saturday at 1pm in Thmor Da village,” town deputy police chief Koy Pril said yesterday.
“We suspect her current husband whom she absconded with to live in Banlung. The husband escaped before we found the body,” he said.
“According to her daughter, who sells at the Banlung night market, they argued almost every day.”

Her stepfather, Pil Nang, had built a charcoal kiln about five kilometers from the market. “When the mother, Phan Pov, 47, went missing, her daughter suspected that she would not have run away because she had only one daughter,” Mr. Pril said.

“Because her mother always had arguments with her stepfather, she went to the charcoal kiln.”
There she saw the arm of her mother’s blue T-shirt sticking up through the ground and reported it to police.

“Bruises on the body show she was probably killed by a garden hoe or a stick,” Mr. Pril said.
“We found a hoe and 1.5-meter stick near where they made the charcoal.”

However, the kiln was capable of making only two or three sacks of charcoal, which meant it was too small to be commercially viable.
“He is likely to have built the kiln as an excuse to get his wife there to kill her, but everything is still unclear,” he said...
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The chief suspect is still being sought by police. It is suggested that jealousy may have been the motive for the murder.

Police Hunt for Man Suspected of Killing Wife
by Phan Soumy | December 26, 2016

Police are searching for a man suspected of beating his wife to death after her daughter found her body buried in a kiln outside their family home in Ratanakkiri province on Saturday, officials said.

Sam Vannak, chief of the provincial police’s serious crimes bureau, identified the suspect as Boes Nang and the victim as Phon Pov, both 47.

He said the search has expanded to Mr. Nang’s home province of Tbong Khmum...
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/brief/pol ... fe-122459/
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