Soldier accused of shooting foreigner
Police yesterday charged an Army sergeant in the shooting death of a Libyan man and slightly wounding two by-standers in a Bangkok nightclub on Tuesday night.
Pol Lt Col Opart Kwansomkit, the case investigator at Pathumwan Police Station, said more witnesses had come forward to provide information and identify the suspect – Sergeant Ekthana Saengdokmai from the Command and General Staff College (CGSC). The witnesses said Ekthana was drunk, got intoa fight with other club-goers and shot dead Libyan businessman Asem Ali Al-Hamadi,33, at the Spicy Pub in Soi Rong Meung 1.
Police presented Ekthana to the Bangkok Military Court yesterday to apply for detention pending investigation into four criminal charges including; murder, attempted murder, shooting a gun in a public place, and carrying a gun in a public place without appropriate reason.
Police are now trying to contact the deceased man's relatives. They said Hamadi reportedly had a business exporting clothes which he bought from Thailand and sent to other countries.
