Cambodian ex-MP’s alleged assassin motivated by ‘debt of gratitude’


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BANGKOK: The alleged assassin of a former Cambodian MP was a hired killer who says he committed the crime to repay a debt of gratitude, police revealed on Sunday (Jan 12).

Pol Maj-General Atthaphon Wongsiriprida, commander of Metropolitan Police Division 1, provided updates after interrogating Ekkaluck Paenoi, the suspect in the shooting of Lim Kimya, a former Cambodian opposition MP.

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