Royalist party adviser shot, wounded

Royalist party adviser shot, wounded

CAMBODIA: A prominent member of Cambodia's royalist Funcinpec party was shot and wounded by an unidentified gunman on Tuesday, witnesses said.

Om Radsady, 50, adviser to Prince Norodom Ranariddh, had just finished lunch with friends when two men on a motorcycle drove up, and the pillion rider shot at him with a pistol before they made their getaway, the witnesses said.

He was taken to Phnom Penh's Calmette Hospital, where he was operated on for a bullet wound to his leg. Neither police nor party members knew of any possible motive for the shooting.

Although the motive for the attack remains unknown, it is bound to fuel concern about the possibility of violence in the run-up to July's general election. --AP