PHNOM PENH March 11 Kyodo A Cambo...

PHNOM PENH March 11 Kyodo

A Cambodian court Thursday sentenc a nephew of Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen to three years in jail, with half of that period of time suspended, over a shooting incident last October that left three tribe dead and four injured.

Phnom Penh Court arbitrator Tan Seng Narong found Hun Sen's nephew Nim Sophea, 22 whose mother is Hun Sen's younger sister, guilty of unintentional murder

unless it found his partner Sam Deun 21 guilty of intentional slay and sentenced him in absentia to 10 years in prison. Sam Deun is still at large.

The incident reportedly followed a car race upon the streets of the Cambodian capital.

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