Man stabs his wife and mother-in-law to death then kills himself
A knife-wielding Thai man is believed to have killed his wife and her mother before taking his own life by drinking pesticide at their home in Lop Buri’s Phattana Nikhom district yesterday morning.
The man’s 13-year-old daughter said she survived the attack by locking herself in a room.
She told police that the father had suffered from mental illness for years but had lately stopped seeing a doctor and taking his medicine.
Following the report of the incident at the house, located at a corn plantation in Tambon Nong Bua, police found the body of Poonsab Peecharoen, 72, with multiple knife wounds at the house’s entrance.
The two other bodies – identified as the alleged killer Somchai Sithai, 45, and his wife, Jamreung, 49, who sustained multiple knife wounds – were found in the kitchen.
The couple’s daughter told police that her mother was cooking when her father killed her.
She said her grandmother was attacked when she went to see what had happened.
The girl said she locked herself in a room upstairs until everything went quiet.
She said she emerged from the room to find her father drinking the pesticide from a bottle and he yelled at her to go stay upstairs, which she did.
She later found her father lying near her mother in the kitchen and she contacted a relative.
The unnamed relative told police that Somchai had suffered a hallucination in which he thought someone had tried to kill him and he had returned from the relative’s house to stay with his own family only two days earlier.
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