Body Found Floating in Tonle Sap River, Phnom Penh

CEOCambodiaNews · Post by **CEOCambodiaNews** » Wed Jul 06, 2022 6:22 pm

Cambodia News (Phnom Penh): At 3:30 pm on July 5, 2022, in village 1, Tonle Sap street, Sangkat/Khan Chroy Changvar, an unidentified man was found afloat in the Tonle Sap river. According to the source, some fishermen spotted the body while fishing.
The fishermen helped bring the body to shore where it was examined by the police. The police autopsy confirmed that the unidentified man died of drowning.

The body is being kept at the Teuk Thla pagoda awaiting the relatives.

xandreu · Post by **xandreu** » Wed Jul 06, 2022 9:42 pm

The level of investigation that goes into these kinds of cases is world leading. Whoever would have thought that the cause of death of a body found floating in a river would be drowning?

Seriously though, do these cases ever get investigated beyond ticking a box under 'Cause of death' that says 'drowning'?

RIP to the victim.

Anchor Moy · Post by **Anchor Moy** » Thu Jul 07, 2022 3:57 am

xandreu wrote: ↑Wed Jul 06, 2022 9:42 pm The level of investigation that goes into these kinds of cases is world leading. Whoever would have thought that the cause of death of a body found floating in a river would be drowning?

Seriously though, do these cases ever get investigated beyond ticking a box under 'Cause of death' that says 'drowning'?

RIP to the victim.

Sad but true. As far as I can see/read from local news; if there are no obviously suspect bruises or broken bones, then a floating corpse is presumed to be an accident or suicide by drowning.

Post by **Username Taken** » Thu Jul 07, 2022 4:00 am

xandreu wrote: ↑Wed Jul 06, 2022 9:42 pm The level of investigation that goes into these kinds of cases is world leading. Whoever would have thought that the cause of death of a body found floating in a river would be drowning?

Seriously though, do these cases ever get investigated beyond ticking a box under 'Cause of death' that says 'drowning'?

RIP to the victim.

Elementary my dear xandreu! There was no bullet hole in the skull, and no bruising on the rest of the body, so therefore . . .

As to the question of whether it was drowning by suicide or drowning by murder, that's not quite so clear.