U.S. Woman Touring Angkor Wat Killed; Guerrillas Suspected
Gunmen killed an American woman and seriously injured her husband Sunday as the couple toured the Angkor Wat temple complex, Cambodia’s biggest tourist attraction.
A provincial official said the gunmen were Khmer Rouge guerrillas, but that could not be confirmed.
The Americans were headed to Banteay Srey, one of several 12th-Century temples in Angkor Wat. Their Cambodian interpreter also was killed when Khmer Rouge guerrillas fired on the vehicle with a grenade launcher as it traveled a dirt road to the temple site, said Uk Kim Leng, provincial police chief.
A State Department official in Washington identified the woman as Susan Ginsburg Hadden of Austin, Tex. Other government sources identified her husband as James Hadden Jr.
The official said Susan Hadden was killed when gunmen attacked the tourists’ van after it stopped at a roadblock. The official, who asked not to be identified, said robbery appeared to be the motive.
A policeman who was also in the van returned fire, he said.
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