The Sungai Kolok police station was alerted at 5.50pm to the bodies inside a car that had skidded to the side of Prachawiwat road in downtown Sungai Kolok district. The body of Pol Corporal Boonyawat Trakulprom, 28, was found in the front passenger seat with a bullet wound to his right temple. The stepfather then had his wife take over driving for the trip home, but a quarrel erupted and the policeman shot her, causing the car to skid off the road. The father then shot himself, the girl told police. Pol Colonel Prayut Pongsanti, commander of the Sungai Kolok police station, said the murder-suicide was motivated by a family quarrel.

Source: The Nation Bangkok September 11, 2018 02:15 UTC