Police officers from 12 communes, led by district police chief Col. Yuk Sarath, chopped down marijuana plants at more than 24 locations in Preah Bat Choan Chum commune on Saturday 1 February, anti-drug chief Maj. Sok Sopha said.[1] They cut 180,367 plants and burned them on the spot, and destroyed 15 ponds used to water the one-hectare mountainside crop.[1][2] No suspects were arrested, as they escaped before police arrived; officers had surveyed the plantations at night and raided by day.[1]
Police cut and burn 180,367 marijuana plants across Takeo commune
Police from 12 communes cut 180,367 marijuana plants at more than 24 locations in Takeo's Preah Bat Choan Chum commune on 1 February 2020 and burned them on the spot. The growers escaped before the daytime raids and no one was arrested.
🇰🇭 Preah Bat Choan Chum commune, Kiri Vong district, Takeo · Cambodia
- Plants destroyed
- 180,367
- Cannabis
- Herbal cannabis, Living plants
- Case stage
- Under investigation
Case data
Every number and detail the sources state, with the sources that state it.
- Plants destroyed
- 180,367
- Agency type
- Police
- Cannabis
- Herbal cannabis; Living plants (180,367 plants)
- Activity
- Cultivation
- Setting
- Field
- Grown
- Outdoor
- Case stage
- Under investigation
Sources
- ASEAN NOWaseannow.comPolice set fire to thousands of marijuana plants in Takeo province, quoting The Phnom Penh Post
- ASEAN News Todayaseannewstoday.comCambodia morning news for February 3, citing Khmer Times
Open questions the AI reported
- The detailed account reaches this report through The Phnom Penh Post and Khmer Times as relayed by two aggregators, rather than through directly opened newspaper pages.
