Police raid cockfighting ring - gun goes off - one injured - surrounded by gamblers

According to Cambodian media reports, on the afternoon of April 4, local police in Papnong County, Prey Veng Province, accidentally opened fire during a raid on a cockfighting arena, resulting in a gambler being shot in the waist. The gambler who escaped immediately returned to the scene and surrounded a deputy director of the county police station.

The police reported that the injured man was Shanweizka, a 36-year-old male farmer, who was shot in the waist. The police officer who fired the shot was Chopinna, a 36-year-old male who served as deputy chief of police.The current director of the Babunong County Public Security Bureau.

According to gamblers at the scene, they organized a cockfight under the tree before the incident.Suddenly, four people rode two motorcycles and arrived at the scene.They recognized the four men as police officers at a glance, and people at the scene began to run away.During the process, the assistant director named Joe Bana shot and killed a man. The people who escaped did not run away when they saw this. Instead, they returned to the scene and surrounded the assistant director because they were worried that no one could be found at that time. The person responsible for this.

The police emphasized that the deputy director had no intention of shooting because there were too many opponents, and the shooting was just for self-defense.During the fall, the gun went off and the bullet struck the wounded man.

After the incident, the director of the county public security bureau rushed to the scene and sent the injured to the county hospital.At the same time, he took the gunman back to the police station to calm down the anger at the scene, and then the two returned home.

In addition, the injured were rushed to the capital Phnom Penh due to serious injuries.According to his family members, doctors will perform surgery on the wounded to remove the bullet on the 17th.The deputy director who was holding a gun during law enforcement was handed over to the provincial police station by the police on the morning of the 17th for handling according to law.