Two men are in hot water after allegedly stealing two water pumps in Pailin’s Sala Krao district on Monday.

Police say the owner, a 55-year-old farmer, heard another farmer in the neighbouring village was selling two pumps, and identified them as his own.

He reported the farmer to police, who confessed he bought the pumps from another man. Police arrested the man and his alleged accomplice, aged 20 and 21, respectively. KOH SANTEPHEAP