Burmese ‘friends’ stab each other while drinking in Pattaya, one killed

Thai Police Pickup, Isuzu D-max belonging to Forensic Science, Royal Thai Police. Photo: Thai Police Vehicles / flickr. CC BY-SA 2.0.
Two Burmese “friends” got into a verbal dispute while drinking, which reportedly escalated into a gruesome stabbing, leaving one dead while the other was still on the run. The fleeing suspect claimed via a phone call that his deceased friend threatened to kill him first.
The stabbing took place yesterday, August 1st, when Pol. Lt. Siriyaporn Kongpetchak was notified of a critically injured man who reportedly got stabbed near his heart in Soi Thung Klom-Tan Man in the Nongprue subdistrict around 9 PM.
Full story: thepattayanews.com
By Tanakorn Panyadee
The Pattaya News