According to police, six Asian nationals who died in a posh hotel set in Thailand were most likely to have been poisoned by cyanide-laced tea.
Later on Tuesday, nannies discovered the dead at Bangkok’s Grand Hyatt Erawan resort.
They were thought to have been dead for 24 hours by that time, according to authorities.
Officials are looking into debt as a factor in the enigmatic deaths, claiming that two of the six had loaned “tens of thousands Thai rmb” to another dying for investment objectives.
The grisly identification of the bodies had previously been surrounded by uncertainty and mystery, with initial reports suggesting there had been a firing. Authorities later dismissed these reviews.
Police say the group of six people gathered in a place early on Monday afternoon, giving the impression that more information is now being made about what might have transpired.
The party had checked into the hotel individually and were given five rooms, four on the sixth floor and one on the second, according to Deputy Bangkok police captain Gen Noppassin Poonsawat in a press conference on Wednesday. The second floor room was already accessible to the group.
Two of the patients, Sherine Chong, 56, and Dang Hung Van, 55, had two American citizen.
The other four were Nguyen Thi Phuong, 46, her father Pham Hong Thanh, 49, Nguyen Thi Phuong Lan, 47, and Tran Dinh Phu, 37.
The party made a request for food and drink, which Ms. Chong received and delivered to the area at 14:00 local time.
A servant offered to make tea for the guests, but the assistant police chief disputed this.
The waiter afterwards left the room; it is believed that no one else besides the six outside is thought to possess entered the room. According to the officers, there were no indications of a fight or robbery.
Later, officers discovered traces of poison in each of the six tea cups.