A man's dinner was rudely interrupted with a vicious beating in Phnom Penh’s Poipet district, police there said.

The 24-year-old was eating at a market when four men approached, one holding a knife, while the others attacked with rocks, seriously injuring him.

The victim knew his attackers, police said. The suspects fled the scene before police arrived. Police are searching for the perpetrators. KOH SANTEPHEAP