Murder suspect held after getaway car crash
published : 18 Jul 2023 at 11:33
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Supapong Chaolan
A man suspected of killing four rubber plantation workers in Chumphon has been arrested, after his stolen getaway car was involved in an accident in Surat Thani 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, 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 had been shot.
Praphan was the prime suspect as he was known to often argue with Prayong. It is believed he killed the workers because he thought one of them stole rubber he had tapped.
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- argue: to speak angrily to somebody because you disagree with them; to give reasons why you think that something is right/wrong, true/not true, etc, especially to persuade people that you are right - โต้เถียง, โต้แย้ง, เถียง, อ้างเหตุผล
- getaway: of something that is used to escape from somewhere -
- plantation (n): a large farm where crops such as tea, coffee, cotton, sugar or trees, are grown - ไร่ นาขนาดใหญ่
- prime suspect: the person police think is most likely to have committed a crime -
- rubber (noun): a bouncy, elastic material used in car tires and waterproof gloves - กล้ายาง
- rubber tapper: a person whose work is to drain the rubber from rubber trees -
- stolen (verb): (past participle of steal) illegally taken from someone/somewhere - กริยาช่องที่ 3 ของ steal ถูกขโมย, โจรกรรม
- suspect: a person who is thought to have committed a crime - ผู้ต้องสงสัย
- suspected: thought to be something - เป็นที่สงสัย
- tapping (noun): cutting into a tree in order to get liquid from it - การกรีดยาง
- victim: someone who has been affected by a bad situation, such as a disaster, illness or an accident - เหยื่อผู้เคราะห์ร้าย
