Cambodian police probing alleged rape of returning worker by Thai troops


Interior minister Sar Sokha and his wife visiting the victim of an alleged gang rape by Thai soldiers, at Battambang Provincial Hospital on Nov 17. - Supplied

PHNOM PENH: Cambodian authorities are investigating a rape complaint which was filed by an 18-year-old returning migrant worker. She alleges that she was raped by a group of Thai soldiers in black uniforms as she and a group of workers crossed the border into Cambodia on the night of Nov 15.

Ros Chivy, deputy commissioner in charge of the Office for Combating Human Trafficking, Child Protection and Gender Affairs at the Battambang Provincial Police, said on Monday (Nov 17), that Kamrieng district police met her at the Kamrieng Health Center and formally took her complaint on Sunday.

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