Police are searching for two soldiers wanted over the drunken, late-night, samurai-sword equivalent of friendly fire.

Four soldiers gathered for a session of boozing in Pursat’s Krakor district on Friday night and drunkenness soon sparked an argument.

Two of the soldiers, both 23, stormed off. When another of the quarrelsome soldiers left 15 minutes later, however, he walked into a trap: his two foes were waiting and attacked him with a cleaver. RASMEY KAMPUCHEA