Missing Canadian journalist Dave Walker found? Cambodia police find body
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Cambodian police were alerted to a body found by two boys on Thursday (May 1), which they think could belong to missing Canadian journalist and author Dave Walker who disappeared in February.
Walker, 58, was last seen on February 14 after leaving a guesthouse in Cambodia's tourist town of Siem Reap. He had left behind all his belongings and carried only a bottle of water with him, his Cambodian colleague, Sonny Chhoun, told Reuters.
"We suspect that the body is of the missing Canadian journalist," Kirth Chantharith, a police spokesman, told Reuters.
Reuters reports, "Walker was in Cambodia to work on a film and had been investigating remnants of the Khmer Rouge. More than 2 million people were killed in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979 during Khmer Rouge rule.
"While Cambodian journalists have at times been attacked and killed, foreign journalists have in recent years rarely been harmed or harassed.
"Police spokesman Kirth Chantharith said that the body was discovered in jungle, 300 meters (yards) from the Angkor Thom temple, a tourist attraction near Siem Reap.
The Canadian Embassy had not yet been notified of the discovery, he said.
"Walker's colleague, Sonny Chhoun, who was working with him on a documentary about the Khmer Rouge, told Reuters that he had been asked by police to identify the body
"'Looking at shoes and jeans, those are Dave's ... I am so sorry, he was a lovely person,' Sonny Chhoun said."
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Cambodian police were alerted to a body found by two boys on Thursday (May 1), which they think could belong to missing Canadian journalist and author Dave Walker who disappeared in February.
Walker, 58, was last seen on February 14 after leaving a guesthouse in Cambodia's tourist town of Siem Reap. He had left behind all his belongings and carried only a bottle of water with him, his Cambodian colleague, Sonny Chhoun, told Reuters.
"We suspect that the body is of the missing Canadian journalist," Kirth Chantharith, a police spokesman, told Reuters.
Reuters reports, "Walker was in Cambodia to work on a film and had been investigating remnants of the Khmer Rouge. More than 2 million people were killed in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979 during Khmer Rouge rule.
"While Cambodian journalists have at times been attacked and killed, foreign journalists have in recent years rarely been harmed or harassed.
"Police spokesman Kirth Chantharith said that the body was discovered in jungle, 300 meters (yards) from the Angkor Thom temple, a tourist attraction near Siem Reap.
The Canadian Embassy had not yet been notified of the discovery, he said.
"Walker's colleague, Sonny Chhoun, who was working with him on a documentary about the Khmer Rouge, told Reuters that he had been asked by police to identify the body
"'Looking at shoes and jeans, those are Dave's ... I am so sorry, he was a lovely person,' Sonny Chhoun said."
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