Cambodian police detain 3 men after journalist investigating illegal logging is killed
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Cambodian police have detained three men believed to be linked to the shooting death of a local journalist who was investigating illegal logging in the country's east.
Sok Sovann, who heads the Khmer Journalists for Democracy Association, says 49-year-old Taing Try was shot in the forehead and died instantly on Sunday at a remote forestry site in Kratie province.
Sovann says Taing Try was reporting on illegal timber trading at the time.
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Kratie's deputy police chief, Oum Phy, said Monday that police arrested three men hours after the shooting.
According to Oum Phy, one of those arrested was a timber trader who confessed to the killing, saying he got into an argument with the journalist.