Cambodia's coup leader dies

A prominent Cambodian senator who led an abortive coup attempt against the coalition government in 1994 has died.

Sin Song, a former interior minister, was fifty-two, and had been suffering from cancer.

He fled to Thailand after the failed coup, and was sentenced to twenty years jail in his absence.

He returned to Cambodia after receiving a royal pardon in 1998, and was appointed to the senate when it was created in January 1999.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service