Thai military officer fatally shot after high-speed pursuit
A 22 year old military officer from the Royal Thai Armed Forces, identified as Ekkarat Suea-am, was fatally shot after a high-speed pursuit involving an aggressive pickup truck driver in Prachin Buri province. The incident, which unfolded over a distance of 10 kilometres, occurred at around 9pm yesterday.
Ekkarat, who was driving his girlfriend from Saraburi to Sa Kaeo, was reportedly chased down and shot by the pickup driver after honking his horn as a warning while attempting to overtake the vehicle.
Upon reaching the scene, police found an Isuzu pickup truck crashed into a grassy verge with significant damage to its left side. Ekkarat, originally from Chabmakrut, Klonghad in Sa Kaeo, was found with a critical gunshot wound to his left shoulder. Despite swift action by rescue services, his life could not be saved due to a bullet puncturing his lung.
His 25 year old girlfriend, who was in a state of shock, managed to recount the horrifying ordeal to the authorities. According to her, the pickup truck, a Toyota with an unmemorable registration number, had been tailgating them closely on the road.
When Ekkarat honked his horn as a warning, the driver allowed them to pass before initiating a dangerous chase. This high-speed pursuit ended with the pickup ramming into their vehicle’s left side and the driver firing a shot that hit Ekkarat before their car veered off the road.
In the aftermath of the high-speed pursuit incident, officers are urgently examining CCTV footage to track down the malevolent driver for prosecution under the law, reported KhaoSod.
An explosion in the southern border province of Narathiwat, Thailand, resulted in the death of one army officer and inflicted injuries upon another officer. A roadside bomb detonated on the vehicle they were travelling in the Chanae district. As per Thai PBS World, military sources indicate that the two officers were en route to examine a separate occurrence. Read more HERE.
