An autopsy has determined that a
British backpacker whose body was found at sea a week after she disappeared on a Cambodian island had died from drowning, an official said Friday.
Kuoch Chamroeun, the governor of Preah Sihanouk province, said by phone that the body of Amelia Bambridge was examined at the main hospital in Sihanoukville, the coastal city to which it was taken after being retrieved Thursday from the Gulf of Thailand.
Maj. Gen. Chuon Narin, the provincial
police chief, said earlier Friday that the autopsy would be attended by forensic police, a hospital doctor, a court prosecutor, a representative of the British embassy and members of Bambridge's family.