The abandoned police pickup truck after it was swamped by a flash flood while police were taking a murder suspect out of the forest after capturing him in Kanchanaburi's Sai Yok district on Wednesday afternoon. Udom Meksamlee, 37, was apprehended in the Wang Yai and Mae Nam Noi national forest reserve on Wednesday afternoon, after being hunted down by a team of police. The suspect allegedly gunned down Panya Sermsuk, 46, at a house in tambon Bongtee in Sai Yok district on the night of Oct 9. As the water rose around them, police quickly abandoned the truck, taking the suspect with them, before it was swept away. More police were sent to the scene take the suspect to the police station and to help retrieve the pickup from the creek.

Source: Bangkok Post October 12, 2017 04:52 UTC