Police seek joint autopsy on Korean student who died after alleged torture in Cambodia

Police will seek a joint autopsy with Cambodian authorities on a Korean university student who died after allegedly being tortured by a local crime ring, officials said Sunday. The Korean student in his 20s was found dead in Cambodia on Aug. 8 after he left for the Southeast Asian country on July 17, telling his family that he was attending an exhibition there. According to Cambodian police, the death certificate listed cardiac arrest caused by torture and extreme pain as the cause of his death. With the repatriation of his body delayed amid an ongoing probe, Korean investigators plan to join Cambodian authorities for a joint autopsy later this month, as a simple postmortem examination is considered insufficient to determine the exact cause of death, officials said. Officials from the Korean National Police Agency and the Gyeongbuk Provincial Police Agency plan to depart after finalizing the schedule with local authorities, they noted. The victim was from the southeastern province. "The repatriation process will proceed after conducting an autopsy in accordance with intergovernmental procWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times