Preah Sihanouk: At 3:20 p.m. on February 13, 2026, provincial military police received information about violence involving pupils at Samdech Ov Lower Secondary School in Sihanoukville. Under strict instructions from provincial commander Brigadier General Heng Bunthy, three specialist officers led by Captain Ouk Chamroeun, deputy head of the Criminal Office of the provincial military police Research and Crime Suppression Department, went to the school in Village 2, Sangkat 3. They cooperated with deputy principal Ms Biev Bunnat and contacted the guardian of the pupil involved, Pech Chan Makara, a 13-year-old Khmer boy in grade 8, class Khô, living in Group 13, Village 3, Sangkat 3, Sihanoukville, Preah Sihanouk.
The injured pupil, Ieng Pov, was a 14-year-old Khmer boy in grade 7, class Kô, at the same school, living in Village 3, Sangkat 2, Sihanoukville, Preah Sihanouk. He sustained a fracture to the frontal part of his skull, and relatives took him to Kantha Bopha hospital in Phnom Penh.
With permission from Penh Piseth, a deputy prosecutor at the Preah Sihanouk provincial court prosecution office, the minor Pech Chan Makara remained at the provincial military-police headquarters for continued questioning and further procedures, with a representative of the provincial Social Affairs Department participating.
By: Pai Sokhim.
