Taiwanese Tourist Found Shot Dead

[sriracha john]

Taiwanese tourist found shot Taiwanese tourist found shot dead on bypass

A Taiwanese tourist was shot dead outside the Chon Buri Flying Club on the Chon Buri-Pattaya bypass route in Si Racha district early yesterday. The body of Kung Tzu Wei, 43, was found under the pedestrian overpass opposite the bypass in Ban Huay Kum, tambon Bang Phra, around 7.30am. He had two fatal gunshot wounds to his right temple.

He was found with his passport, a mobile phone, 4,000 baht and NT$8,100 in cash.

A flying club guard told police he heard a car pull over near the pedestrian overpass around 3am yesterday. Some people left the car and talked before two gunshots were heard.

Pol Lt-Col Somsak Wamuk of the Si Racha police station said the tourist had called his sister, who was on holiday in Chiang Mai.

The sister, whose name was not given, told police that she and Kung arrived in Thailand together on April 24.

Halfway through the trip, Kung ran out of cash and asked his sister to lend him 100,000 baht before travelling to Pattaya with two Thai friends on May 7.

She said they were northeasterners who had worked in Taiwan.

Kung was heading back to Bangkok to catch a return flight to Taipei yesterday morning, before he was found dead.

Pol Lt-Gen Jongrak Chuthanont, Provincial Police Bureau 2 commissioner, said the Thai friends are the prime suspects and police are searching for them.

- BP

[jdinasia]

Wow!

What was he mixed up in? ...

[ilyushin]

Looks like more than a domestic issue. Pit stop!

[chuang]

There must be a reason if you are gunned down with two shots to the temple at 3AM in the morning

[Prakanong2005]

There must be a reason if you are gunned down with two shots to the temple at 3AM in the morning

And they are not interested in your money!

[sriracha john]

There must be a reason if you are gunned down with two shots to the temple at 3AM in the morning

And they are not interested in your money!

Sriracha... the hub of sublimeness...

[Sing_Sling]

Taiwanese, nothing stolen, two shots to the head = triad.

[sriracha john]

Not been a good couple past days for Asians in Sriracha :

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=69875

-- A Korean businessman survived after his car was hit by a speeding cargo train at a train crossing in this eastern coast province Sunday afternoon.

Won-Hee Lee, the manager of a firm which makes electronics parts for Samsung, was driving his car from Crystal Bay golf course in Sri Racha