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A Banteay Meanchey provincial court has decided to detain a Vietnamese migrant on suspicion of the murder of Mr. Tob Saroeun, a provincial councillor at Reaksmei Santepheap Restaurant in Banteay Meanchey recently.
Mr. Sous Sam Ath, the investigating judge, said suspect Quang Hung was arrested on 25th July while on the run for the murder of Mr. Tob Saroeun on the night of 24th. He said: "He (the suspect) confessed everything that he really did it (the murder), with the other two people."
Quang Hung and other two suspects, 18 year-old Hai Hung and Trinh Anh, who work as carpenter in the local area, were arrested on 25th July, but Hai Hung and Trinh Anh were released after the police found out that they were not involved in the murder.
Gen. Hun Hean, the provincial police commissioner, said the trio are illegal Vietnamese migrants because at the time of their arrests they carried no indentification papers.
The 62 year-old Mr. Tob Saroeun is a provincial councillor was chopped several times on the head with a samurai sword while he and other officials, who were dressed in civilian clothes, had reprimanded the Vietnamese trio for being too drunk and too loud in the middle of the night while drinking at the restaurant.
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