A Volunteer from the Defense Corps shot dead in Krabi

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A Volunteer from the Defense Corps shot dead in Krabi

He was rushed to a hospital but later died from his injuries.

By Kritsada Mueanhawong

 

  

A 42 year old Volunteer Defense Corps officer, Thongchai Poonkerd, was shot early this morning (February 28) while going to work at a rubber plantation with his wife. Police suspect that the motive for the homicide is most likely drug suppression operations.

 

The two went to the rubber plantation at about 5.30 am with a motorcycle. When his wife went down to open the gate to get in the shooter shot him twice. He was rushed to a hospital but later died from his injuries.

 

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Another unfortunate cannon fodder as a surrogate for the army that has largely withdrawn its own armed forces from the south because of self-declared lower levels of violence by the insurgency.