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British couple commit suicide in southwestern Cambodia: police chief

Xinhua, January 2, 2017 Adjust font size:

Cambodian police had found a British couple hanged in their rental house in southwestern Cambodia's Preah Sihanouk province on Monday and concluded that they committed suicide a day earlier, local media reported, citing a provincial police chief.

Major General Chuon Narin, police chief of Preah Sihanouk province, said the couple hanged in their rental house on Sunday and their bodies were found on Monday morning.

He said the deceased couple, who were tourists to the province, had left a letter before terminating their lives.

"After the examination by doctors and police experts in combination with a left English letter, it is concluded that the couple had committed suicide (by hanging)," Gen. Chuon Narin was quoted as saying by Fresh News service provider.

According to the victims' letter posted on the Fresh News, the victims wrote that alternatively, their bodies could be cremated in Sihanoukville to save on shipping.

"We are so sorry, but hopefully we will find peace from depression, bi-polar, asperger and the NHS (National Health Service) which has constantly let us down," read the letter.

The letter also listed the phone number of two persons. Endit