Reporters beaten, driver held over traffic accident in P Penh
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One man appeared in court in the Cambodian capital yesterday after being arrested over a violent confrontation with journalists following a traffic accident, police said.
Journalists had been reporting from the scene of a traffic accident early on Monday near the Wat Phnom temple in central Phnom Penh, when drivers involved in the accident tried to grab their recording equipment.
Srah Chak commune police chief Kann Vannak said seven local newspaper and television reporters were beaten during the fighting. There were no reported casualties from the accident itself, in which one car collided with several other vehicles.
“We tried to run after them to take our property back ... Immediately, one man shot at us three times,” one of the television reporters, Ngov Dina, was quoted as saying by the Cambodia Daily.
“Nobody was injured, but one video camera was broken,” Vannak said, adding that a driver had been sent to Phnom Penh court for allegedly causing the violence.
