NARATHIWAT: A villager was gunned down in a drive-by shooting in Rueso district of this southern province on Saturday afternoon.
The attack occurred on a local road in Ban Bon village in tambon Suwaree, said Pol Lt Thanit Wutthicha, deputy investigation chief at the Rueso police station, who was alerted at 2pm.
Burahan Jaekor, 30, of Sungai Padi district, was found dead on his fallen motorcycle on the road. He had sustained two gunshot wounds to his neck and nape.
A police investigation found the man had left his house for his orchard by motorcycle earlier. When he was on his way back home, two men on a motorcycle followed him and the pillion rider opened fire on him and fled.
The motive for the attack was still not known.