Quartet of thugs fails to take out two capital cops

Perhaps at four-vs-two a coterie of suspects thought the odds were in their favour, but capital police proved otherwise when the men squared off against them yesterday in Phnom Penh Thmey commune.

Pulled over for a weapons check, the crew tried taking on the boys in blue with their fists but were bested, arrested and detained in a holding cell until they go up one-on-one against a provincial judge.

Rasmei Kampuchea

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