Cambodia News (Sihanoukville): On August 9, 2021, in village 4, Sangkat 4, Sihanoukville, a 14-year-old juvenile whose name is Poeung Veha, the oldest child of the 5 children of his family who collect junk for a living, disappeared into an abandoned casino at 4:00 pm and has not been seen since. There is also a large patch of industrial wasteland nearby.


According to the other junk collecter boys who were with him before his disappearance, they were salvaging through the junk in the abandoned casino, when all of a sudden, the security guard spotted them and chased them. So they were all separated as they ran off, and the other kids have not seen the victim again since then.

According to a woman who lives near the casino, she saw a boy leave the building at 5:00 pm and he sat outside, but then the guard chased him and the boy ran into the abandoned casino again and never came out. The boy's family and friends are all worried that something has happened to him.

UPDATE
Cambodia News (Sihanoukville): On August 10, 2021, the missing 14-year-old junk collector boy was found dead in the swamp beside the abandoned casino.
The discovery of his body was made by the volunteer police who dived and searched the swamp water. As a result, the abandoned casino has been officially banned from reopening.

RIP. Poor kid.

Poor kid. Look at the state of that place. And we have posters on here trying to BS that this disaster zone is up and coming? FFS

John Bingham wrote: ↑Thu Aug 12, 2021 1:02 am Poor kid. Look at the state of that place. And we have posters on here trying to BS that this disaster zone is up and coming? FFS

No surprise that it's a mess. They have been concreting over the wetlands, blocking the canals that were evacuating rainwater, building highrises on swamp lands etc. But the water has to go somewhere.

Also, it's a sad state of affairs when gangs of kids are roaming around at night in derelict and often dangerous half-built constructions in order to swipe anything that is not concreted down.
I know that's not new, but seems to me that things are going backwards, not forwards. One day, the people who have invested in Sihanoukville may return and build a super-mega casino city, but meanwhile, the Cambodians who still live there are surviving as best they can. Many of them can't afford to move.

"As a result the casino will be banned from reopening"

WTF pity the kid but he went to steal stuff in a building tried to hide in a lake outside the casino and drowned.
Why the already closed for covid casino loses it's license?