CHON BURI: Two more suspects in the murder of a young couple at Buddha Mountain have surrendered to police but the alleged mastermind remains at large, believed to be hiding in Cambodia.
Kritsana Sisuk, 22, and alleged gunman Narong Warintharawet, 22, turned themselves in separately to local police in southern Nakhon Si Thammarat on Monday night and were then taken to Sattahip police station in Chon Buri and charged.
The two arrests brought the number of the suspects held in the fatal shooting of Paweena Namuangrak, 20, and her boyfriend Anantachai Jitram, 21, in the parking lot of Khao Chee Chan (Buddha Mountain) in Sattahip on July 29 to five.
The three others are Kiatisak Suransaengmilboon, 35, Sayant Sisuk, 43, and Jirasak Unaiban, 34.
Pol Lt Col Thaweesak Suethong, deputy superintendent at Sattahip, took Mr Kritsana to the crime scene at Khao Chee Chan for a re-enactment on Tuesday morning.
The suspect said he accompanied Phuket nightclub operator Panya Yingdung, the alleged mastermind, to Chon Buri because he thought the man wanted to patch up his relationship with Paweena.
Pol Maj Gen Chalermkiart Srivorakhan, deputy national police chief, said reports that Mr Panya had already been arrested were not true.
Police investigators were dispatched to track down the prime suspect along the Thai-Cambodian border, Pol Maj Gen Chalermkiart said. They had not caught him yet.
Pol Maj Gen Maitri Chimcherd, commander of the Crime Suppression Division, said police had information that Mr Panya was hiding in a village in Cambodia.
Cambodian authorities have been asked to help arrest him, the CSD commander said.