Lim Kimya was a member of the Cambodia National Rescue Party, the popular opposition that was dissolved by a court ahead of a 2018 election over an alleged treason plot. The CNRP said at the time that the charges against it were fabricated by the ruling Cambodian People's Party.

Cambodian police say they have apprehended a Thai man suspected of gunning down a former opposition politician from Cambodia in a popular Bangkok tourist area.

A suspected hit man who shot dead a former Cambodian opposition lawmaker in a brazen attack in Thailand's capital Bangkok was arrested in Cambodia after a day-long manhunt, a senior Thai police official said on Wednesday.

Thai police on Wednesday issued an arrest warrant for a gunman suspected of shooting dead a Cambodian opposition politician in a brazen attack in downtown Bangkok.Police have issued a warrant for the suspected shooter,

Lim Kimya was shot dead on Tuesday by a gunman on a motorbike as he arrived in the Thai capital from the Cambodian city of Siem Reap by bus.