According to a Chinese news report, a man in Cambodia discovered that his online lover of two years was already married and had two children. In a fit of rage, he traveled across countries and stabbed the woman to death with a knife. The incident occurred on April 18 at around 2:34 PM in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, in the Porsenchey district.
The victim was a 24-year-old Cambodian woman named Mei Lei Na, who was married to a 37-year-old Chinese man and had two children. The police stated that surveillance footage showed the man arriving at the victim’s home in a tuk-tuk, carrying a black plastic bag. The victim was putting clothes in the washing machine at the time and asked the man, “What are you doing here? Go away.”
The man did not respond and climbed over the fence to approach the victim. He pulled out a long knife from the plastic bag and began stabbing the victim randomly. Even after she fell to the ground, he did not stop.
Neighbors heard the woman’s cries and rushed to the scene, attacking the man with a stick. However, the man seemed determined to kill the victim and continued to stab her until she died. He then stabbed himself in the stomach and slit his throat, lying down next to the victim, attempting to end his life as well.
The police arrived and immediately took the man to the hospital for treatment.
The man is 25 years old and from Takeo province in Cambodia. He usually works in Thailand. He confessed to the police that he had been in an online relationship with the victim for over two years, but had never met her in person. They often chatted on Facebook, and he even sent her money regularly. However, the victim never revealed that she was already married with children.
Recently, the man discovered that his online lover already had a family, and he felt foolish for being deceived. Not only was his heart broken, but he also lost a significant amount of money. Therefore, he developed a plan to seek revenge. He tracked down the victim’s address and traveled from Thailand to Cambodia to carry out the attack.