A 26-year-old man has confessed to murdering a ride-hailing driver in Chiang Mai on July 8 and then using his car to rob a gold shop in town, Thai police said. Suspect Nipitpon Somboonsukying had been planning the bizarre crime for the past nine months, said investigators...
A 26-year-old man has confessed to murdering a ride-hailing driver in Chiang Mai on July 8 and then using his car to rob a gold shop in town, Thai police said.
Police and rescuers also recovered the body of the ride-hailing driver, acting Lieutenant Suthep Chainanta, 48, which was discovered behind a roadside pavilion near Wang Bua Ban Waterfall on the slopes of Doi Suthep. The body was sent to Maharaj Nakorn Chiang Mai Hospital for autopsy. Baht is a unit of weight measurement for gold in Thailand. One baht is equivalent to around 15g of gold.
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