Former Thai MP Kills Official in Nonthaburi, 12th Gun Death in 3 Weeks
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Updated · South China Morning Post · Aug 11
Former Thai MP Kills Official in Nonthaburi, 12th Gun Death in 3 Weeks
3 articles · Updated · South China Morning Post · Aug 11
Summary
Four shots fired inside a car on Monday killed Nonthaburi official Thongchai Yenprasert, 71, after former MP Chalong Riewrang allegedly confronted him over a money dispute.
Chalong, also 71 and a three-time lawmaker with strong local influence, then walked away with the pistol in his belt and later called a television host to confess, according to the report.
Thongchai became the 12th gun-killing victim in less than three weeks in Nonthaburi, a province of about 250,000 people just outside Bangkok.
That toll follows a July 21 motorbike assassination in Pak Kret and a later family land dispute in which a former bank manager killed two relatives and wounded four others.
The cluster of killings, alongside a recent school shooting, has intensified scrutiny of Thailand's failure to contain gun violence.