{"asset":"news","key":"9264","locale":"en","id":"news:9264:en","entityId":"news:9264","canonicalUrl":"https://www.kps-tv.com/en/news/detail/9264","state":"ready","title":"Fisherman Finds Three Floating Bags Containing About 60 Kilograms of Drugs off Sihanoukville","summary":"On September 24, a fisherman in Sihanoukville Province, Cambodia, spotted three suspicious bags floating on the sea near Koh Ses (Horse Island) while out fishing. After hauling them up, he discovered that the bags contained a large quantity of suspected drugs and promptly handed them over to law enforcement.","body":"On September 24, a fisherman in Sihanoukville Province, Cambodia, spotted three suspicious bags floating on the sea near Koh Ses (Horse Island) while out fishing. After hauling them up, he discovered that the bags contained a large quantity of suspected drugs and promptly handed them over to law enforcement. After counting, there were a total of 60 packages, weighing about 60 kilograms in all.\n\nAccording to a notice from the Sihanoukville Provincial Gendarmerie, the anti-drug department took receipt of the drugs at around 10:30 a.m. that day. The fisherman involved is 46 years old, a Cambodian national residing in Bokor City, Kampot Province, and makes a living by fishing. At 3 p.m., coordinated by a deputy prosecutor of the Sihanoukville Primary Court, the gendarmerie handed over the 60 packages of drugs to the police anti-drug department for further investigation.\n\nPolice said the batch of drugs may be linked to a joint anti-drug operation conducted in waters near Koh Ses (Horse Island) in the early hours of September 23. At that time, the suspects involved threw part of the drugs into the sea during the police operation, and the 60 kilograms recovered by the fisherman are believed to be among them.\n\nIt is reported that during the joint law enforcement operation on September 23, police broke up a suspected drug and illegal weapons trafficking case, arresting a total of seven Chinese suspects and seizing approximately 840 kilograms of drugs, 49 long and short firearms, and nearly 8,000 rounds of ammunition.\n\nFrom the 60 kilograms of drugs salvaged from the sea to the 840 kilograms seized the day before, this case shows that anti-drug law enforcement in Sihanoukville has continued to intensify recently. Police are still further tracing the suspects involved and the source and flow of the drugs.","contentScope":"full","proof":{"publishedSourceRevision":"4","publishedWorkingVersionId":"9570","languageVersionId":"930","visibilityVersion":"4","versionToken":"a1.h3dq9ZbNz7z8PPlD_B4zpA1vCnG8I-O4iZlVNpgau-Y"},"availableLocales":["zh","en","km"],"attributes":{"sourceLocale":"zh","translationKind":"machine","nodeId":"172","authorText":"","sourceName":""},"references":[],"links":[],"publishedAt":"2026-09-25T07:44:23Z"}