Police will pursue a joint autopsy with local police in Cambodia in connection with the case of a college student from Yecheon, North Gyeongsang, who died there.
The North Gyeongsang Provincial Police Agency's violent crime task force said on the 12th that it will dispatch personnel for the autopsy of A, a Korean in his 20s, which is scheduled to take place in Cambodia this month.
Earlier, A was found dead on Aug. 8 near Bokor Mountain in Kampot Province, Cambodia. In July, A had departed for Cambodia, saying A would take part in an overseas expo.
Cambodian police are said to have listed A's cause of death as "cardiac arrest (severe pain due to torture)" in a preliminary examination conducted before the autopsy.
To determine the exact cause of death, police plan to coordinate with Cambodian authorities and send investigators from headquarters and the North Gyeongsang Provincial Police Agency to join the autopsy on site.
A's body has not been repatriated for more than two months. It is understood that the handover of the body and funeral procedures will be possible only after investigative procedures by Cambodian police and others are completed. The bereaved family is said to be waiting for the handover of the body.
Police recently arrested B in connection with A's case. The two were found to have known each other through social contacts.
B is said to have induced A to leave the country by saying in Korea, "I will buy your bank account at a high price." After A departed, a man speaking with a Chinese Korean accent reportedly called A's family using A's mobile phone and said, "Send 50 million won."