PHATTHALUNG police produced a sketch yesterday of a gunman they say shot dead Phra Suchat Rakmai, 66, while he collected alms on September 16. Provincial police chief Pol Lt-General Damras Viriyakul said Phra Suchat was formerly a technical college director.

Damras said police were investigating both the murder and a mysterious fire that burnt the slain monk’s coffin in a pavilion at Khuan Panungtung Temple on Sept 26.

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