Prey Nop district police sent a 34-year-old man to the Preah Sihanouk provincial police station on Thursday for allegedly raping a woman at a construction site in Bit Traing commune’s Pou Thoeung village.

zistrict police chief Huor Yai said on Thursday that police sent the suspect to the provincial police station’s Anti-Human Trafficking and Juvenile unit. He is a construction worker who just started working for one day.

“We completed the questioning and sent him to provincial police. Higher-level authorities will take further action against him,” he said.

Kol Piseth, Bit Traing commune police chief, said the suspect raped a 24-year-old woman from Kampot province who had been working at the construction site for months. Her husband worked in a different province.

“We don’t know where the suspect came from because he just worked at the site for one day,” he said.

Piseth said the workers, including the suspect, gathered for a drink on Tuesday night. When the woman was sleeping early on Wednesday, the suspect sneaked into her room, threatened to kill her if she dared to shout for help, and raped her.

He threatened to kill her again if the rape was known by others and she pretended to promise to keep it a secret before he left the room.

However, she told the other workers about what happened and requested help from the commune police. The man was arrested and questioned on Wednesday at the commune police station.

He said the suspect confessed to the crime.