The deaths of two bodyguards from gunfire at Prime Minister Hun Sen’s residence will not be investigated, police sources said Monday.
Police say they have no information about how or why two of Hun Sen’s bodyguards were killed Saturday night only a few meters from the premier’s house near Independence Monument .
“They were dead but police are not allowed to make a report,” said Phorn Pen, chief of Daun Penh district police.
Government spokesman Khieu Kanharith said he knew nothing about the incident.
“I was not informed about this news,” he said Monday.
Bystanders said an argument between two bodyguards led to one shooting the other with an AK-47 and then killing himself on the compound grounds.
They said the argument began when one guard became drunk and would not leave his post. Another guard insisted that he go to bed and sleep, but the drunk man refused. The other guard then became angry, left, returned with a gun and fired several rounds into the man’s abdomen, chest and head.
Blood was smeared across a driveway entrance to Hun Sen’s residence as an ambulance took away the two bodies, witnesses said. A group of men later sprayed the blood off the concrete, they said.
Witnesses on Sunday said eight to 10 shots were fired after a fight broke out inside the prime minister’s compound. Sources who asked to remain anonymous said the two men were friends and both were cremated in a discreet ceremony on Monday. They said both belonged to Hun Sen’s bodyguard unit, believed to number some 2,000. Hun Sen normally resides at his mansion in Kandal province’s Takhmau district.
