Drunk Goes on Killing Spree in Kampong Thom

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Drunk Goes on Killing Spree in Kampong Thom

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Cambodia News, (Kampong Thom Province): Under the influence of alcohol, a man named Pol La beheaded his wife and a neighbor, at 7 pm on January 1, 2022 in Ponley village, Cheng Deung commune, Baray district, Kampong Thom province.
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According to witnesses, the drunk man attacked his wife with an ax in the abdomen and then cut off her head. He then attacked a neighbor, 56-year-old Pech Hun, who came to help, and also beheaded him. There were three children present, who were also slightly wounded in the spree of violence, but their days are not in danger.
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Police went to the scene and overpowered the killer before taking him into custody. He will be charged with double homicide.
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I just do not get used to the gratuitous violence in Cambodia. Sure, mass shootings are a common occurence elsewhere in the world but cutting off heads is on a whole different level.
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hanno wrote: Sun Jan 02, 2022 4:25 pm I just do not get used to the gratuitous violence in Cambodia. Sure, mass shootings are a common occurence elsewhere in the world but cutting off heads is on a whole different level.

That's true, but if that guy had a gun then he probably wouldn't have cut any heads off at all :stir:

R.I.P to the deceased; that sounds like a particularly horrid scene to witness
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It’s not immediately clear whether they were already dead when they were beheaded, but that savagery to be witnessed by the children almost doesn't bear thinking about.

Alcohol only, or some other substances, too?
Kampong Thom seems to have a fair presence in the news.
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Fuckin hell...
Another bunch of kids with a tremendous shake in their growing-up process, endless nightmares, endless needs, endless traumas...
When does it end ?

Oh sure there is a mention about alcohol, but something big is still missing to give the full picture.
Canadians too have plenty of axes and whiskeys.
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Spare a thought for the poor cops who have the clean up job, how they go home and sleep is beyond me
I'm standing up, so I must be straight.
What's a poor man do when the blues keep following him around.(Smoking Dynamite)
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