Ranariddh’s wife in city for care

Ranariddh’s wife in city for care

Cambodia’s Prince Norodom Ranariddh’s wife was seriously injured in a car accident and was sent for treatment at a Bangkok hospital on Sunday.

The prince was struck by a hit-and-run driver, on Saturday, leaving six people, including his wife Princess Ouk Phalla, injured.

A spokesman for the country’s Funcinpec political party, which the prince heads, stopped short of calling the Saturday incident in Kampong Cham province political terrorism.

However, he told the Phnom Penh Post that the accident was “not normal”.

“The matter of the truck hitting the prince’s car was not normal,” he said. “I would like to appeal to all relevant authorities to thoroughly investigate [the case] and to bring justice for the prince. It was not incidental, because the truck escaped and hit the prince’s car in the right lane,” Nhep Bun Chin told the newspaper.

The accident occurred when a dump truck collided with the prince’s motorcade after leaving a political rally for the capital.

The truck hit both the prince’s vehicle and one carrying his bodyguards.

Kampong Cham provincial police chief Ben Rath quickly dismissed talk that the hit-and-run was politically motivated, telling the Post that it was merely a traffic accident, “not a political matter”.

Funcinpec was planning to file a lawsuit over the accident today.

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