Briefs: More Questioned Over Boat Sinking, Car Plunges off Kampot Dam
The unrelated incidents have left at least six people dead, as police investigate the boat’s deadly transport of Chinese nationals.
VOD Staff Sep 30, 5:55 pm
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The unrelated incidents have left at least six people dead, as police investigate the boat’s deadly transport of Chinese nationals.
Prime Minister Hun Sen on Thursday acknowledged foreign workers had been lured and trafficked to Cambodia amid ongoing police raids against criminal scam operations that have now reached Siem Reap.
Final checks ahead of Saturday’s Phnom Penh-Sihanoukville expressway opening have found residents cutting barbed wire fencing so they can graze cows by the road and sell food to motorists, the Transport Ministry said.
When a boat carrying 41 Chinese nationals sank off the coast of Sihanoukville last week, another boat was nearby carrying two Cambodians, said a provincial official.
The Ream transfer shows details of the government’s exchange not typically released in other deals, even those involving vast tracts of land.
Nearly 9,000 phones were seized from a Sihanoukville compound and barbed wire cut from the notorious “Chinatown” area. As human trafficking raids target compounds across the city, residents say other buildings appear to be quietly emptying of foreign workers.
Thousands of viewers have circulated a video online of a woman pleading in Khmer for rescue from forced labor at a Sihanoukville scam center.
Fifty-nine Thais were removed from scam operations in Cambodia in simultaneous raids on two compounds this week — including 40 from the Kandal facility where Vietnamese nationals last month made a dramatic escape swimming across a river, Thai police said Friday.
Cambodian authorities have publicized more arrests and rescues from forced-labor compounds, mostly in Sihanoukville — though they have so far spoken little about the multimillion-dollar global scams operating within them.
Authorities rescued two more individuals from a Sihanoukville compound, police said, without giving the exact location and denying it was detention as they only “wanted to quit” and return home.
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