Two men suspected of murdering a motodop before stealing his motorbike in the capital last week continued to be questioned on Wednesday by the Phnom Penh municipal police serious crimes bureau.

A third man was also arrested and is being questioned after allegedly buying the victim’s stolen motorbike from the murder suspects.

On October 15, passers-by saw 29-year-old Mek Phin lying dead on a gravel road in Khvet village, in Dangkor district’s Sak Sampov commune.

The Ministry of Interior’s Penal Police Department collaborated with the bureau on Monday to arrest the three men in Phnom Penh’s Por Sen Chey district.

Penal Department deputy chief Colonel Chiev Vibol told The Post on Wednesday that his forces worked with the Phnom Penh municipal police headquarters to arrest the suspects because the case fell under the municipal police’s jurisdiction.

“My department collaborated to arrest the three suspects and they are at the Phnom Penh municipal police headquarters,” he said.

Heng Sophea, the chief of the Phnom Penh municipal police serious crimes bureau, said on Wednesday that the men were being detained for questioning before being sent to court.

“We are working to move the case forward and the three suspects are still being questioned at my office,” he said.

A district police officer said the two murder suspects were construction workers, one 36 years old and the other 43.

The third suspect, he said, was a 42-year-old who allegedly buys and sells stolen motorbikes.

He said the arrests were made at 9pm on Monday in the capital’s Por Sen Chey district when the authorities found the men who had been in hiding.

The police seized a black 2015 Honda Dream C125 motorbike with a Battambang province number plate and a blue Oppo phone that was also allegedly stolen from the victim.

Phin, the victim, was a glass cutter and motodop who lived in a rented house near Por Sen Chey district’s Century Plaza Market. He hailed from Takeo province’s Koh Andet district, in Prey Khla commune’s Samkhli village.