Khlong Toey boy survives family massacre
By Coconuts Bangkok


Graphic: Lerdsuwa

BANGKOK: -- A 15-year-old boy is in critical condition after being shot in the head by his own father yesterday.

Police said Boonlue Iamporka, 52, killed himself with the same gun he used to murder Thongdang Chorak, his 42-year-old wife and their 2-year-old daughter inside their home in Khlong Toey's Pattana Mai community.

Their son survived being shot and is in critical condition at Chulalongkorn Hospital.

Police believe money problems might have been a factor [read more...]

Full story: http://bangkok.coconuts.co/2013/12/11/khlong-toey-boy-survives-family-massacre


-- Coconuts Bangkok 2013-12-11

Sad things go so far that there seems no other way than to kill your children.

I'd kill myself too if I killed my two year old daughter ... I don't have enough expletives in my vocabulary to condemn this... Why didn't you just kill yourself first!

Sad story.... R.I.P.

I'd kill myself too if I killed my two year old daughter ... I don't have enough expletives in my vocabulary to condemn this... Why didn't you just kill yourself first!

"Money problems "???/ apart from the others, a 2 year old ??? as if she had anything to do with anything only survive in the stink hole.

In a way it's a pity the father is dead, because in this case an eye for an eye ?? slow death would have been fair. what a sick papa. Goodness knows what some of these people face though to drive them into a maniac.

Who is there to see if you have a problem here ???? no one to turn to---no community care program ???? so much money in local corrupt government, going to the wrong places.

Many avoidable things here--conditions of living --clean water-? sanitation-?-local council housing program-??---Canals stinking for 30 years that I know of.

this is a tragedy - shocking. BUT again where is the help prior to these incidents.

How very sad. I hope the boy makes a quick and full recovery, although this event will forever change the course of his life.

what is sad is the loss of life other than the stupid woman ...but what is more insane is the mother who was MILLIONS of baht in debt from gambleing with loan sharks, sold the mans business carts (fish seller) so they could not even make money to live ...INSANITY

This matter is too horrendous and tragic for me to comment on with an opinion.

Must be high on drugs.......RIP.

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If the father had sold the gun and his gold bracelet his financial position wouldn't have been so bad!!!,,,RIP the poor innocent girl

Makes you wonder how many fishmongers are out there with guns in their pockets.

Regardless what the factor was you don’t kill a 2 year old or attempt to kill a 15 year old child, what was their deaths for kill the wife and yourself but never kill children it’s our job as adults to protect the innocent’s in this evil world we live in.

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Sorry.

Thought someone wanna know. It's was straight from the first aid guys cam.

I do not condone what has happened but what has the state of Thailand and corruption got to do with it? This kind of thing is much more pronounced in the USA and Europe. Posters continually blame Thailand and corruption on anything that happens, yet they fail to recognize that their own countries have sad and depraved acts that happen every day, some a lot worse than what happens here in Thailand. A perfect example would be high school and university shooting the the USA....must be because of the corruption over there! Being sarcastic before anyone goes there!

I'd kill myself too if I killed my two year old daughter ... I don't have enough expletives in my vocabulary to condemn this... Why didn't you just kill yourself first!

"Money problems "???/ apart from the others, a 2 year old ??? as if she had anything to do with anything only survive in the stink hole.

In a way it's a pity the father is dead, because in this case an eye for an eye ?? slow death would have been fair. what a sick papa. Goodness knows what some of these people face though to drive them into a maniac.

Who is there to see if you have a problem here ???? no one to turn to---no community care program ???? so much money in local corrupt government, going to the wrong places.

Many avoidable things here--conditions of living --clean water-? sanitation-?-local council housing program-??---Canals stinking for 30 years that I know of.

this is a tragedy - shocking. BUT again where is the help prior to these incidents.

Money problems.

Like everything else in Thailand. It's all about the money.

I'd kill myself too if I killed my two year old daughter ... I don't have enough expletives in my vocabulary to condemn this... Why didn't you just kill yourself first!

first ?,..... and the second thing ?

To kill a 2 years old girl this is an impossible thing for human.

This some-one who did it was an animal and not human.

I guess behind this story there is jealousy as usually.

And no-one investigates the daily Thai soap opera's responsibility.

Very sad.

Look at it from a Buddhist point of view. This life sucks so let's end it and start our next life in the hope it will be better. I am not saying it is right, killing kids can never be right under any circumstances, but maybe some people think this way....?