PUBLISHED : 18 Jul 2023 at 04:00
SURAT THANI: A man who killed four rubber plantation workers in Chumphon has been arrested, after his stolen getaway car was involved in an accident in Kanchanadit district yesterday.
The suspect, identified only as Praphan, 44, was arrested between Surat Thani’s Chai Buri district and Krabi’s Plai Phraya district yesterday.
Praphan, from Chumphon’s Tha Sae district, worked at a rubber plantation in Chumphon’s Sawi district owned by one of the victims, identified as Prayong, 61. Prayong’s body was found on July 16, along with the bodies of three workers from Myanmar. All were found to have been shot.
Praphan became the prime suspect, as he was known to often argue with Prayong. He killed the workers because he believed one of them stole rubber he had tapped, investigators said.