Cambodian couple saw house in half in divorce (AP)
“Very strange, but this is what my husband wanted,” she said by phone from a village about 62 miles east of Cambodia’s capital, Phnom Penh. She said they ended their marriage last month.
“He brought his relatives and used saws to divide the house in half,” she said, adding that she now owns the other half that is still standing. The house is made from wood with a tile house and propped up on wooden pillars, a typical style for a Cambodian rural parts home.
She said her estranged husband and his relatives, after ripping apart half of the house, carried all the debris to his parents’ dwelling-place nearby.
She said the divorce was prompted by her husband’s jealousy here and there her alleged relationship by a policeman in the village. She denied having an extramarital affair.
“He wanted a divorce, and I uttered, `Let’s divorce,’” she said.
The husband could not exist reached for comment.
Bou Bout, a village chief, before-mentioned local officials and police were present in the manner that witnesses the set time the marry split their 20-by-24 1/2 foot partnership into moiety.
“Local officials tried three epochs to make acquisition them to mend their differences, but the husband would not budge,” Bou Bout declared by phone.
