Crime

Bangkok city employee found shot to death in Surat Thani

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Monday, December 21, 2020 14:54

PHOTO: Kapook

Police have opened a homicide investigation after a Bangkok city employee was found shot to death in her car in the Southern province Surat Thani.

A resident noticed a Toyota Yaris was parked along a road in the Phun Phin district for 3 days. Yesterday evening, the resident decided to check it out and saw a woman’s body in the front passenger seat, still buckled up.

Police say 30 year old Thitirat Seeharat, who worked at the office of the permanent secretary Bangkok Metropolitan Administration official, was shot 3 times in her stomach. There were also bruises on her face.

The woman’s relatives told police that Thitirat was in the South to visit her boyfriend, but they didn’t know the details about her trip. Thitirat’s body was sent to the Phun Phin Hospital for a post-mortem examination.

SOURCE: Bangkok Post

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3 Comments

Maag

Monday, December 21, 2020 at 9:23 pm

Suicide ?

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- Mister Stretch
  
  Tuesday, December 22, 2020 at 7:34 am
  
  3 shots to the stomach…suicide?
  
  I wouldn’t be surprised, in Thailand, if that was the finding.
  
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brian mc

Tuesday, December 22, 2020 at 11:01 pm

how did she get so far from bangkok if shed been shot? one of them self driving cars i guess.

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Caitlin Ashworth

Caitlin Ashworth is a writer from the United States who has lived in Thailand since 2018. She graduated from the University of South Florida St. Petersburg with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and media studies in 2016. She was a reporter for the Daily Hampshire Gazette In Massachusetts. She also interned at the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Virginia and Sarasota Herald-Tribune in Florida.

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