Manhunt for Thais in shootout with Cambodians in Poipet
Cambodian security authorities are pursuing a group of Thais on the run after engaging in a shootout with Cambodians in Poipet that left four people injured.
Agencies reported on Monday military police were hunting nine Thai nationals involved in the brawl with a group of Cambodians at a pub in front of Paradise Casino in the Cambodian border town on Saturday night.
Poipet military police chief Maj Noun Nynaro told agencies that 14 suspects, all of them Cambodians, were arrested, while the Thais, two of them women, escaped.
The shooting took place as the Thais and Cambodians, who had previously had an altercation, met at the pub. The brawl started with flying wine bottles and chairs, followed by the exchange of gunshots allegedly started by a Thai man, it said.
The gunfire injured one person and three military police officers who tried to intervene at the scene, it added.
SOURCE: NEWS AGENCIES