Mekong deaths a 'murder-suicide'

Mekong deaths a 'murder-suicide'

NAKHON PHANOM: A man and his seven-year-old daughter jumped into the Mekong river in Muang district and drowned in an incident believed to be a murder-suicide.

Pol Cap Jamras Srihata, a district police duty officer, said it occurred about 6.30pm on Saturday along the river in front of the governor's riverside residence on Sunthorn Wichit Road.

A rescue unit of the Muang Nakhon Phanom municipality and divers from the Mekong Riverine Unit attended the incident at the pier from which the man and his daughter were seen jumping into the river, he said.

The rescuers and divers retrieved the bodies of the man and his daughter from the river, not far from the pier, after about an hour of searching.

The man was identified as Rakangngern Intra, 30, a food delivery courier. The daughter was Kulnart Intra, 7, a Prathom 1 student.

Somkid, 53, Rakangngern's mother, said her son had two daughters, 7 and 4. His wife left him about two years ago, leaving the two daughters in his care, she said.

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