(10 June)
Around midnight, Pathumthani police received report that a fight broke out and a victim was knifed
to death in Muang district.
The incident took place at an unnamed 2-storey flat in Baan Klang
sub-district. At the staircase of the building police found the body of Mr. Nopparat Kotekapi, 41, a
native of Nong Kai province, with stabbing wound in his left side chest.
Witnesses told
police they saw Mr. Nopparat, in drunken state, flirting with the wife of his neighbor, inviting her
to go out with him that night, and the woman became upset and told her husband, Mr. Banchong
Seedokpud, 40. Mr. Banchong reportedly confronted Mr. Nopparat about this, and fights broke
out.
Police said Mr. Bangchong fled the scene after stabbing Mr. Nopparat to
death. Police are still looking for
him.
