Vehicle used in Sondhi attack found

Police have found a Toyota Vigo pick-up truck suspected to have been used in the ambush of People's Alliance for Democracy leader Sondhi Limthongkul in Bangkok on April 17.

Pol Maj-Gen Panu Kerdlarppol, deputy metroplitan police chief, said the Lop Buri-registered vehicle was seized by Region 1 provincial police from a military camp in Lop Buri.

It was brought to the Traffic Division headquarters on Monday night for forensic examination, he said.

Mr Sondhi was hit in the head by bullet shrapnel and his driver seriously injured when the van they were travelling in was attacked by gunmen who sprayed the vehicle with bullets near Bang Khun Phrom intersection early on April 17. Mr Sondi was on his way to work.