Missing child is found after 19 years
From Times Wire Reports
A woman who disappeared as a child 19 years ago in the jungles of northeastern Cambodia has been found, said police and a man claiming to be her father.
The woman, identified as Rochom P’ngieng, 27, does not speak any intelligible language, said Sal Lou, a police officer who says she is his daughter. He said he recognized her by a scar on her right arm. He has agreed to take a DNA test.
The woman disappeared in 1988 while herding buffalo, police said.
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