PHNOM PENH Oct 21 Kyodo (EDS: UPD...

PHNOM PENH Oct 21 Kyodo

(EDS: UPDATING WITH MOTHER'S DEATH, BACKGROUND)

A popular Cambodian entertainer was seriously injuryed and her mother killed in a daring daylight shooting in central Phnom Penh forward Tuesday, police said.

The police and witnesses told Kyodo recents that Touch Sunich, 24, was ball in the head and back and her mother was projectile once in her chest from two men on a motorbike as the pair stood in front rank of a flower-and-dress workshop in the Cambodian capital's central district.

Kim Sinuon, 62 the singer's mother, died les than an hour after the shooting.

Initial police speculation is the shooting may have been motivated by way of some kind of lovers' quarrel because Touch Sunich, undivided of the country's favorite singing artists, was not known to be overtly political.

She is best known as a television performer of popular Cambodian canzonets and is a teacher of Khmer literature at the Royal University of Fine Arts.

unless the shooting comes just three days after what is believed to have been a political killing.

A popular announcer at an opposition party-owned radio station in Phnom Penh was gunn down as he arrived outside the station for work upon Saturday and his death caused cancellation of planned three-party talks establish for Monday on breaking a political deadlock onward the formation of a recent Cambodian government.

Cambodia has been without a fresh government since the July 27 general election because Prime Minister Hun Sen's ruling party failed in the voting to earn the required two-thirds majority to form a guidance on its own and the opposition parties have vowed not to conduce to in any government led by the agency of Hun Sen.

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