Suspect in Tak family massacre still at large, wife held

By SOMJIT RUNGJAMRASRASSAMEE 
THE NATION

 

 

Tak police hunting for the killer of a family of four have arrested the wife of the prime suspect, hoping she will reveal his whereabouts.

 

Kittimasak Siduan, village headman in Ban Mae Tao (Moo 1) in Mae Sot district, where the killings took place, led village defence volunteers in apprehending Myanmar national Toon Mit, 60, and turned her over to police.

 

She is the wife of Mong Suay, also from Myanmar, chief suspect in the slaughter of a Myanmar family of four, including two boys, one four years old and the other four months.

 

The killings are believed to have stemmed from a quarrel.

 

Mong Suay was a soldier with the Border Guard Forces Battalion in Karen state prior to getting married and relocating to Thailand to find work, according to an anonymous military source at the Karen National Union base opposite Tak.

 

During initial interrogation, Toon Mit confirmed that Suay had quarrelled with the slain family, their neighbours, and that she and Suay fled after the killings. She insisted she didn’t know where he was now.

 

Police searched in vain for Suay on a “no-man’s land” island near the Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge in Ban Rim Moei.

 

The slain family was apparently killed while they slept, either Saturday night or early Sunday morning.

 

The bodies of Ador and Makhinla, both 45, were found indoors, Makhinla holding her four-month-old son in her arms, while the four-year-old boy was found in a pond nearby.

 

Police found nail-studded wooden clubs at the scene.

 

The family’s two daughters were spending the night with relatives and escaped their parents’ and siblings’ fate.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30360721

 

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Did they check under the bed?

No doubt back over the border by now.

4 minutes ago, Burma Bill said:

No doubt back over the border by now.

Please don't apply so much logic to the problem. 

Two suspects in killing of family arrested in Myanmar

By The Nation

 

 

Myanmar police have arrested two men wanted for the killing of a family of four in Tak's Mae Sot district over the weekend.
 

Mong Suay, 48, and Mong Sui were arrested in Hpa An, the capital of Myanmar's Karen (Kayin) State, after Thai police sent arrest warrants to their Myanmar counterparts.

 

The two men were arrest after a tip-off by local residents. They are now being detained at the Myaing Kalay Police Station in Hpa An.

 

Earlier, Mong Suay's 60-year-old wife, Toon Mit, was apprehended at a wooded area in Ban Mae Tao (Moo 1), tambon Tha Sai Luad in Mae Sot.

 

She told police that her husband - a former soldier with the Border Guard Forces Battalion in Karen state - had quarreled with the slain family who had been their neighbours.

 

Police believed that the quarrel was the motive of the brutal killing of Ador and Makhinla, both 45, as well as their two sons, one four years old and the other four months old.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/detail/breakingnews/30360806

 

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