Police hunt for shooter of injured Burmese woman

Phuket Gazette 

 

          

The shooting occurred at a ya bah ‘exchange’ at a Burmese workers’ camp yesterday morning. Photo: Winai Sarot

 

PHUKET: -- A woman was shot during a ya bah (methamphetamine) ‘exchange’ at a Burmese workers’ camp yesterday morning.

Capt Kraisorn Boonprasob of Thalang Police received reports of the incident from 41-year-old Mongkol Wongpradit, the caretaker of the camp located in Thalang.

“Chan, a worker at the camp, told us that two Thai men on a white motorbike approached him and ‘insisted’ that he buy ya bah from them. Mr Chan says he refused, so one of them attempted to shoot him, but missed,” Capt Kraisorn told the Phuket Gazette. 

 

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A ya bah ‘exchange’  ..... never heard that expression before.  Do they set up a booth like a f/x money exchange ?