TAK: A border patrol police officer has been arrested for shooting and seriously wounding his brother-in-law, a local policeman from Umphang district of this northern border province bordering Myanmar.
The incident took place at the house of Pol Lt Col Amnat Khunyosying, an officer in charge of crime suppression at Umphang police station in tambon Umphang on Saturday afternoon. Pol Senior Sgt Maj Suwan Saenwong, 48, attached to the 4th Border Patrol Police Command, broke into the house and proceeded into the kitchen where Pol Lt Col Amnat was cooking.
Eyewitnesses told police investigators that Pol Sr Sgt Maj Suwan, who just returned to the house from a feast and appeared drunk, charged into the kitchen and shot the Umphang police officer with a handgun, hitting him in the back of the head and seriously wounding him.
Pol Lt Col Amnat was flown in a helicopter to Mae Sot Hospital for treatment. He was reportedly still in a coma.
Pol Sr Sgt Maj Suwan, who fled in a pick-up truck after the attack, was arrested late on Saturday night by Umphang police. He was initially charged with attempted murder.
Police were investigating the incident. It was initially reported that Pol Sr Sgt Maj Suwan had earlier quarrelled with his elder sister, who is Pol Lt Col Amnat's wife.