An elderly Chinese man, while swimming in the sea at Koh Tootch, sangkat Koh Rong together with his family, choked on water and died when his family pulled him from the water back on the boat to give him first help.
The incident happend on July 20 2016 around 1PM at sea at a small island in front of Koh Tootch village, sangkat Koh Rong, Sihanoukville.
The Military Police said that prior to the incident a group of Chinese tourists rented a long tail boat to bring them to the place of the incident to take a swim. While swimming and also looking coral suddenly an elderly Chinese man choked on water and sank.
The family of the victim pulled him from the water in the boat to give first help by giving CPR (ជួយធ្វើចលនាបេះដូងឲ្យ) but unfortunately moments later the victim died. (ដាច់ខ្យល់ស្លាប់)
The victim was identified as Wang Rucheng, male, 73YO (must be 83). The victim entered the Kingdom of Cambodia on July 18 2016.
The corps of the victim was sent back to the mainland by the family and transferred to the Provincial Referral Hospital to perform an autopsy (វើកោសល្សវិច្ច័យ).

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