Japanese embassy official meets police chief over death of Japanese cameraman

BANGKOK, Dec 15 — A senior Japanese embassy official on Wednesday met National Police Chief Pol Gen Wichean Potephosree to ask the Thai authorities to speed up their investigation into the death of a Japanese cameraman killed during Red Shirt protest.

Cameraman Hiroyuki Muramoto of the Reuters news agency was shot dead while filming the confrontation between the government security forces and the anti-government ‘Red Shirt’ United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship (UDD) in April.

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