KHON KAEN: A man, his wife and their grandson were killed and another man injured in a road accident involving three vehicles in Muang district of this northeastern province on Sunday, police said.

The accident occurred at about 10am on the Khon Kaen-Phra Yuen road in tambon Ban Wa.

Suriya Thongla, 40, the driver of a pickup, told police that his vehicle laden with papayas was leaving Khon Kaen town when a Suzuki Ciaz tried to overtake it from the left. The road narrowed at that point, and the car crashed into the left side of his pickup, spun around, veered across the median and collided with an oncoming lorry loaded with earth.

The violent collision killed the driver, Art Wichamoon, 50, and his wife Somkid, age not known. Also killed was their grandson, aged two years and eight months, who was sitting on hisgrandmother’s lap in the left front seat.

The driver of the lorry, who was not identified, was slightly injured.

Pol Capt Yongyuth Sadao, a investigator from Muang Kao police sub-station, said he had questioned the drivers of the pickup and the lorry. Forensic police were called to examine the three vehicles to establish the cause of the accident.

Bangkok Post

Picture: Thai Rath

Muang district police in Khon Kaen in Thailand’s north east have found a 66 year old former American serviceman dead in his rented property.

Thai Rath reported that a close female friend of the deceased has not been seen for some time.

Jean Mark Robert, 66, was found yesterday on a mattress in a hall area of a house he had rented for the last seven years. Decomposition was setting in and neighbors had been alerted by the smell.

There were no signs of a struggle or anything out of place at the two and a half story cement house in Soi Srijan, Srijan Road.

Locals said that the deceased, described as 170cms tall and large – had not been seen for two or three days.

He had come to rent alone but kept the company of a Thai woman who no one had seen for a while.

He was a long term resident of Thailand often seen in the downtown area with a walking stick.

Muang district police chief Pol Col Jamlong Suwalak declined to comment on the cause of death saying that cops would wait for an autopsy.

The US embassy has been informed.

Source: Thai Rath

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