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Cambodia arrests 3 Vietnamese tourists for flying drone over Royal Palace

Xinhua, November 14, 2015 Adjust font size:

Cambodian police on Saturday morning arrested three Vietnamese tourists for flying a remote-controlled miniature aircraft over the Royal Palace, a senior police official confirmed.

The men were identified in a police report as Tran Minh Hung, 27, Nong Minh Buong, 24 and Nguyen Dung Anm, 23.

"We have questioned them about their flying of a camera-toting drone over a prohibited zone and found that they pose no threat to social security, so we just educate them and release them," Lt. Gen. Sieng Sen, director of the Interior Ministry's internal security department, told Xinhua, adding that they signed a contract to promise not to do it again.

He said the group was unaware of the ban on drones in Phnom Penh.

The Phnom Penh City Hall has banned flying drones without a permit since Feb.16 after a German male tourist flew his video camera-mounted drone over the Royal Palace and was spotted by Queen Mother Norodom Monineath as she performed her daily exercise routine. Endit