Japanese man murdered in Ang Thong
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An 83-year-old retired Japanese businessman was found dead with his throat slit in his residence in Ang Thong's Wiset Chaichan district Tuesday.
The body of Kasuo Yoshitoka was found in the second-floor bedroom at around 6am by his Thai wife Paranee Napadol, 48.
She told police that Yoshitoka, who had just returned from Japan six days ago, was alive when she left the house at 8.30pm on the previous night to stay over at her mother’s house next door. Police found the sign of killer breaking into the house via window and ransacking the place for valuables.
