Soldier commits suicide after killing 16-year-old wife
A Cambodian military officer killed himself after
shooting dead his 16-year-old wife with an AK-47 rifle after he allegedly
refused her request for a divorce, local media reported on Tuesday.
“He was angry with the wife for wanting to divorce
him,’’ Capt. Chuon Narong, a district penal police officer, told the Times.
Narong said neighbours had heard the couple
arguing earlier Sunday, with Tol reportedly accusing his wife of having an
affair, which she denied.
“The neighbours did not intervene because they
regularly heard the pair fighting.
“The couple was married for about a year and did
not have children,’’ Narong added.
Tol worked on the provincial military base and his
wife was a farmer in the area.
Cambodia’s legal minimum age of marriage is 18
years old; however, children who are no less than 16 may legally marry with
permission from a parent or guardian.
According to 2014 figures, the most recent data
available from the United Nations’ child rights agency, almost one in five
women in Cambodia aged 20 to 24 years old were first married or in a union
before age 18.
dpa/NAN
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