Police death said to be suicide
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A police officer has shot himself dead - reportedly over stress from illness and debts - in Lampang's Muang district yesterday.
Police found the body of uniformed Pol Senior Sergeant Major Kasidit Chaiboonreung, 43, behind the Hor Nalika fivefork intersection police booth. He had a gunshot wound in the head and his pistol was nearby. Police investigation found he had suffered from neurosis and Meneire's disease for years and was stressed about it.
His police partner, Pol Senior Sergeant Major Thawil Somana, said Kasidit had asked the supervisor for a day off on grounds he was ill and Thawil suspected he killed himself over his chronic illness and many debts.
