BANGKOK, Oct 8 – Thailand’s Crime Suppression Division arrested a Thai man alleged to have murdered a Japanese woman and escaped to Thailand for nearly 20 years.

Deputy CSD Commander Pol Col Prasobchok Prommoon announced at a news conference that Veerasak Iampongsa, 39, was apprehended for the premeditated murder nearly 20 years earlier while he was on a Bangkok-Trang bus when it reached the southern province of Nakhon Si Thammarat’s Tung Song district.

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