Korean driver accused of wiping out Cambodian family

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Jul 7, 2008, 5:27 GMT

Phnom Penh - A Korean driver killed five members of one Cambodian family while speeding under the influence of alcohol, police said Monday. Police said grandparents Yiet Tann, 44, Chrun Kimsry, 43, and their daughter Yeit Srey Sros, 24, died instantly when the unnamed Korean collided with their motorbike late Saturday, and Sros' daughters Hun Phalnyta, four, and baby Hun Phalnyta died in hospital. 'The Korean guy was drunk and driving very fast on the wrong side of the road,' a traffic police official from Chom Chao district on the outskirts of the capital said by telephone. He said the identity of the Korean had yet to be determined. 'We did find out he is Korean but he refuses to provide a name or cooperate with our investigation and he speaks no English,' the traffic police official said. If convicted he faces life in prison, although tragedies such as this are often resolved with compensation in the Cambodian system.

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