Gunfire at meat firm kills 2

Gunfire at meat firm kills 2

Police seal off the three-storey premises of Flying Board Bangkok Co on Soi Sukhumvit 49/6 after the shooting. POLICE PHOTO
Police seal off the three-storey premises of Flying Board Bangkok Co on Soi Sukhumvit 49/6 after the shooting. POLICE PHOTO

A Frenchman and a Thai woman were found shot dead and another Frenchman wounded at a cold-meats company in the Sukhumvit area of Bangkok on Wednesday.

Thong Lor police said the shooting occurred at Flying Board Bangkok Co on Soi Sukhumvit 49/6 around noon.

Pol Maj Gen Chokchai Ngamwong, deputy chief of the Metropolitan Police Bureau, said police called to the scene found the body of the Frenchman in the kitchen on the ground floor of the three-storey building. The dead Thai woman was found in a cold storage room on the same floor.

Both appeared to have been shot with the same weapon, a 9mm pistol, he said.

They were Marc Lohberger, 66, and Wiranya Meeyai, 43, according to a police source.

Pol Maj Gen Chokchai said another French national was lying wounded, also on the ground floor. He was taken to Samitivej Hospital, and was in a safe condition.

He was identified as David Bouton, 48, according to the source.

Flying Board Bangkok Co supplies cold cuts including sausages, bacon and beef to restaurants and hotels.

The wounded man, Mr Bouton, is one of the partners, according to police. It has been operating for two years.

An assistant chef at the company told police that she heard the two Frenchmen quarrelling, and then the sound of gunshots.

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