Police, prison warders and local officials search for escaped drug inmate Seksan Khuenkaew in a forest near Hang Chat Hospital in Lampang on Wednesday. Seksan Khuenkaew, 39, alias Ae Khwai, fled from Hang Chat Hospital in Hang Chat district late on Tuesday night. The wire tool used to hopen the handcuffs, found on the drug inmate's bed after his escape from Hang Chat Hospital in Lampang late on Tuesday night. Police believed the escapee was hiding in Hang Chat district. Pol Col Sompong Tangtua, chief of Hang Chat police, said police had been sent to the escapee’s home at Pa Khrai Nua village in Hang Chat district, about 6km away from the hospital, to inform his parents of his escape.

Source: Bangkok Post May 23, 2018 06:56 UTC