Takeo provincial police are searching for the suspect linked to the death of a waitress at a guesthouse in Donkeo town’s Roka commune late on Monday after concluding it was a case of murder.
Sem Socheat, the chief of provincial police’s serious crimes bureau, on Tuesday identified the victim as Khin Chenda, 21, a restaurant server who was suspected of having been killed by the suspect whose identity “has been determined”.
“The victim was presumed murdered. I heard that there was a blood clot in her brain,” he said, adding that the authorities were working hard to locate the “runaway killer”.
Donkeo police chief In Mondul said the guesthouse owner had been questioned.
Based on the owner’s account, Mondul said early on Monday, Chenda and a man checked in at the guest house for an overnight stay. Not long after check-in, the man left the premises, telling the receptionist that he was going outside to buy porridge for breakfast, but he never returned.
Later that morning, Mondul continued, a housekeeper found Chenda lying naked in bed in the room and immediately reported the matter to the authorities.
“A team of experts from the provincial police station and I visited the scene, but I did not examine the corpse directly. An expert officer told me that there were no injuries on her body,” he said.
An expert officer who wished to be anonymous said the victim wore a small necklace, but it was not stolen, thus the police had ruled out robbery and concluded that the victim was murdered.