A photo showing a heap of discarded passports found in a trash can on a street in Cambodia is spreading online.
Recently, an online community posted a photo of a large number of Southeast Asian passports, including those from Thailand and Taiwan, thrown away in a trash can in Cambodia.
In the photo, items presumed to be passports in brown, blue, and green are mixed with bottles, Styrofoam, and plastic. On the front of the most visible brown passports, the word Thailand (THAILAND) can be seen.
Viewers reacted by saying, "How many abductions have there been?" and "Local crime is serious."
Recently, crimes targeting Koreans in Cambodia have been occurring one after another. Kidnapping reports, which were only about 10 a year three years ago, rose to 220 last year, and surpassed 330 through August this year.
Most victims are said to have left the country after seeing high-income job ads on social media, then were confined and assaulted. In August, a Korean college student was captured by a Cambodian crime ring, tortured, and died.