Bodies found in Chiang Rai pond linked to shootout with Army

By The Nation

 

 

Seven bodies have been retrieved from a pond in Chiang Mai close to the Myanmar border and to a cemetery where soldiers engaged in a firefight with suspected drug runners on Monday (February 24).

 

Pol Col Paween Thongsomboon, chief of Koh Chang police in Mae Sai sub-district, was informed about the decomposing bodies and arranged for preliminary examinations at the scene that suggested all had died from wounds sustained in the gun battle.

 

The bodies had floated to the surface at different locations of the pond, which is less than a kilometre from the border.

 

The military engaged the suspects in a cemetery in the village of Pa Daeng. No troops were injured.

 

The clash ended with some 20 suspects fleeing and abandoning 21 rice bags in a forest and the cemetery that contained 2.25 million doses of amphetamine and crystal methamphetamine, weighing a combined 14 kilograms. 

 

There were no dead or wounded found near the drugs, but it’s believed the seven bodies discovered in the pond the next day were those of people wounded in the shoot-out, who then fled across the Ruak River, only to succumb to their injuries in the pond.

 

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30382941

 

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2 hours ago, webfact said:

There were no dead or wounded found near the drugs, but it’s believed the seven bodies discovered in the pond the next day were those of people wounded in the shoot-out, who then fled across the Ruak River, only to succumb to their injuries in the pond.

 

Seems unlikely that 7 injured people would all flee the scene and all succumb to their injuries at the same time in the same place! But hey I am not a detective, so what do I know!

How convenient. No witnesses.

11 minutes ago, graemeaylward said:

Seems unlikely that 7 injured people would all flee the scene and all succumb to their injuries at the same time in the same place! But hey I am not a detective, so what do I know!

Did they all have wounds in the back of their heads?

I'm thinking dead men can't tell how many bags of drugs they were carrying.

Without too much mental effort, I can think of a few alternate explanations of how a bunch of dead drug runner bodies ended up floating in that lake all in the same place at the same time...right after encountering the Thai military.

 

36 minutes ago, rickudon said:

How convenient. No witnesses.

Shoot first, ask questions later, the victims are now ready for interrogation!

3 hours ago, webfact said:

20 suspects fleeing and abandoning 21 rice bags in a forest and the cemetery that contained 2.25 million doses of amphetamine and crystal methamphetamine, weighing a combined 14 kilograms. 

Some of these numbers don't match for me ...

7 people flee a fire fight, and all die in the same Pond

Yeah right ! 

 

20 runners to carry 14kgs of drugs... hmmm

20 hours ago, webfact said:

Bodies found in Chiang Rai pond linked to shootout with Army

Dead people don't talk ,Me Thinks ,The ones that know what happened Won't talk.

19 hours ago, rickudon said:

How convenient. No witnesses.

One would assume the witnesses are among the 7 corpses.