TWO cocktail-downing doctors have died after their wives injected them with a mystery liquid to counteract the booze.
Dr An Hyong Chan, 56, and Dr Rimun Chol, 50, died in the clinic that doubles as their home after a drunken evening with friends.
The victims’ wives told police their husbands had drunk several cocktails by the time they got home and had developed a very high temperature.
This led to their spouses, who are also doctors, to inject them with a substance that was supposed to lessen the effects of the alcohol.
The deaths of the two North Koreans in Phonm Penh, Cambodia, were not reported to the police until Saturday afternoon, hours after they occurred, when the North Korean Embassy contacted authorities.
Boeung Kak II commune police chief Khan Khun Tith says officers were initially suspicious about the wives’ account of how the doctors died.
Speaking to The Phnom Penh Post he first said: “We think the deaths might be suspicious because one of the victims had scratch marks on his chest and stomach.”
But later he said the police were happy with the explanation by the dead man’s wife who said her husband had been clawing at his stomach due to pain in his chest.
Tith said: “According to the autopsy report, the victims both died of a heart attack,” adding that when police arrived at the victims’ home they found 14 North Korean nationals there, along with the dead doctors’ wives.
The North Korean Embassy had also accepted the wives’ account.
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