Phnom Penh, Cambodia: Police have found the body of a Chinese construction site manager hacked to death with an axe in Phnom Penh’s Por Sen Chey district, Cambodia on Monday night.
Cai Weilin, 42, and engineer and manager was found dead by his friends at the New Town Apartment construction site in Por Sen Chey’s Choam Chao commune at about 8:30pm.
Police official said :
He was beaten and chopped by an axe [two times] on his head by the perpetrators, and died in a pool of blood.He was found dead by his Chinese friends, and they later reported it to our local police.The perpetrators have escaped
The killing of Weilin is characterised as a revenge attack by the Cambodian workers, after it was reported he had an argument with the workers earlier that evening. He had told the workers that they are lazy and are not following instructions. The men came back while he was working at on the first floor of the construction site and hacked him to death.
Weilin body had been transferred to the Chinese embassy. Police have identified the suspects and are currently seeking their arrest.