Crime Construction Worker Beaten to Death with Wooden Stick After Drunken Dispute in Ratchaburi

[Georgealbert]

 

Pictures courtesy of Khaosod.

 

A newly hired construction worker was brutally beaten to death in the early hours of 1 June, following a drunken altercation at a rented house in Photharam District, Ratchaburi Province.

 

Police were alerted to the fatal assault at approximately 00:20. Pol. Sub-Lt. Uthis Lhaoha, an investigator from Photharam Police Station, responded to the scene along with senior officers, forensic teams, rescue workers from Sawang Ratchaburi Foundation, and medical personnel from Photharam Hospital.

 

Upon arrival at a rented property in Village 5, Don Krabueang subdistrict, officers discovered the lifeless body of Mr. Soten, a 28-year-old Myanmar national, lying in a pool of blood near the bathroom area. The victim had sustained fatal head injuries.

 

The alleged attacker, identified as Mr. Achiko, 37, a member of the Karen ethnic group, had been restrained by fellow workers at the scene. He was taken into custody and brought in for questioning.

At the crime scene, police found a bloodstained wooden stick, broken in two, believed to be the murder weapon. Blood was also seen splattered on a nearby concrete wall.

 

According to the site supervisor, a Thai national, both the victim and the suspect were recent hires. Mr. Achiko had been recruited just the day before and was staying in the same rented property with several other workers. That afternoon, around three to four workers, including the victim and the accused, began drinking together after buying food.

 

As the evening progressed, tensions flared between the two men. An argument broke out, with both reportedly attempting to strike one another with bottles, though other workers managed to intervene at the time. The supervisor then instructed everyone to stop drinking and go to sleep.

 

Later that night, a co-worker rushed to alert the supervisor, saying someone had been killed. Upon returning to the common area, the supervisor found Mr. Soten dead and Mr. Achiko standing nearby, holding a broken stick and speaking incoherently.

 

Further accounts from witnesses suggest that after the supervisor went to bed, the two men resumed drinking and arguing. The victim eventually lay down near the bathroom to sleep. It is believed that Mr. Achiko followed him with a wooden stick over a metre long and repeatedly struck him, leading to his death.

 

Police have charged Mr. Achiko with murder. He remains in custody pending legal proceedings. The victim’s body has been sent for autopsy.

 

Authorities continue to investigate the circumstances surrounding the incident.

 

 

  Adapted by Asean Now from Khaosod 2025-06-02.

 

 

 

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