Police have arrested a man suspected of kidnapping and killing a six-year-old girl. Footage from security cameras in Bang Na in Bangkok showed the man walking with a girl reported as missing by her parents since December 6. Read more: The Nation
A Thai man and three Taiwanese nationals were arrested on Thursday for allegedly possessing about 200 kilograms of heroin and trying to smuggle it out of the country. Police arrested Supadet Booncharoen, 40, in the parking lot of the Maple Hotel on Srinakarin Road in Bang Na district at 9.30am after finding 426 kilograms of […]
Earlier today, Bangkok police announced the arrest of two Thais and four foreigners in Bangkok’s Bang Na district. The sextet had allegedly been running a telephone investment scam. The foreign fiends included two Brits – Anthony Gunguly, 34, and Simon Murphy, 31 – as well as Michel Dingelhoff, 45, a Dutch national, and Manny Detera, […]
Bangkok will enjoy a relatively cool spell until the end of next month, according to the Meteorological Department’s deputy director-general Somchai Bai-muang. Temperatures in Bangkok’s Bang Na district, where the department is headquartered, hovered around 19.3 degrees Celsius on one day recently. It was the lowest level for this year to date. Read more: The […]
Three of the students who were part of a gunfight at Bang Na intersection that injured a bank employee on Thursday were arrested yesterday and will be tried in juvenile court. The Education Ministry has also forbidden the two institutions to enrol new students next year. One of the arrested students, called Eve, faces the […]
A 43-year-old man jumped off the Bangkok Bang Na BTS station to his death yesterday. Police suspect he committed suicide over his illness. Following the suicide report at 10.05 am, found the body of Pornchai Meesapwattana on the road beneath the station. His backpack was on the station’s third floor platform on the Mor Chit […]
A van transporting foreign labourers crashed into the rear of a parked six-wheel truck this morning, killing eight people and injuring five others. The accident happened at 7am on the BAngkok Kanchanapisek Ring Road at kilometre marker 59 heading towards Bang Na. The impact killed two Thais and eight Cambodians, police said. Read more: The […]
A Van carrying Cambodian passengers collided with a 6-wheel truck at eastern ring road motorway intersection in Bang Na, Bangkok, killing 8 people and and injuring 4. The minivan’s driver fled from accident scene. MCOT
