Cambodian police are investigating the “horrific’’ beheading of a 6-year-old girl and her grandmother, whose headless bodies were found in a forest on Wednesday, authorities said on Friday.
The victims were discovered in the central province of Kampong Cham on Wednesday after they had been reported missing from their home about 24 hours prior.
This is, according to Cambodia’s Child Protection Unit, a police unit supported by the nongovernmental Cambodian Children’s Fund.
No suspects had been arrested as of Friday but four individuals were answering questions from a task force comprised of the CPU, national and local police officers and a visiting Australian forensic pathologist, James McCabe, CPU’s operations director, told dpa. Read more