Police said Sao Lekpanao, 69, was killed when the machine pulled his t-shirt, causing his neck to be crushed in the machine. 
His wife, Amnuay Prachanan, 56, called police at 6pm after she returned from her rice field to find the body.

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She said her husband had a small machine to mill his own paddies and to provide milling services for other farmers in the neighbourhood.

Korat farmer strangled by rice milling machine

A rice farmer was strangled when his T-shirt got caught in the shaft of a rice-milling machine in Nakhon Ratchasima’s Bua Yai district on Tuesday evening.