Cleaner tells police he took ‘white pill’, drank beer, had paranoia attack

A two-year-old boy is dead after a man – thought to have been delirious after drinking beer and taking a narcotics pill – stabbed him many times while holding him hostage in front of police and many onlookers in Bangkok’s Prawet district yesterday afternoon.

Police rushed to the front of Number One Cleaning Service, a three-storey building in Soi Chalermprakiat, to find the man – later identified as cleaning worker Thavichai Nathongbo, 47 – holding the unconscious boy Thanapat Ketkaew at a knifepoint.

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