Tuesday evening 24 Aug A village's serious Robbery

Banteay Tauch Village Phnom Bath District Kandal Province
On the 24th August at around 9pm, Mr. Phorn Phut and his family were surrounded by five robbers in their house, three of them armed with guns. After they poisoned the family's dogs, they opened fire on Mr. Phorn Phut as he tried to fight them off with a knife and injured one of them in the process. The fifty-eight year old got hit by three of the twenty something bullets that were shot. The robbers took two cows, the family's most precious and only valuable property, with them as they left. Villagers were drawn to the house as the family's desperate cries got louder and they took Mr. Phorn Phut to a hospital in Phnom Penh. The man had suffered two shot through wounds, one smashed his wrist bone and the other went through his shoulder causing severe blood loss, a third bullet was stuck in his abdomen and needed to be removed by surgery. The Jesuits came up with the money for his medical treatment. Though he was brought to the hospital with lethal injuries, we are glad to report that he recovered and was released from the hospital yesterday. However, Mr. Phut did not return to his former village, fearing the robbers might return, he and his family settled down in another village.
Ongoing investigations are conducted by the local police forces; so far, their efforts to identify the suspects were in vain.
Violent robberies like this case are becoming more serious and common, since the poverty drives more and more people into the crime scene for survival. The JS is continuously making efforts to abolish increasing crimes like these, by pursuing their educational and developmental programs in order to improve the living standards of the people.