A food vendor’s trip to the market ended in bloody violence yesterday in Kampong Cham town during an attempted moto theft.

Police said the 40-year-old man was driving with his wife to buy food at about 5am when three men with a cleaver overtook them on a motorbike, blocking their way, and then hacked at the man, leaving him unconscious and bloodied as they sped off on his moto. Police are now looking for the three louts, and the victim is recovering in hospital. KOH SANTEPHEAP