Two men pulled off the daring daytime robbery in Chiang Saen district on May 18 but were then tracked down by the police. 
One of them, Sitthichoke Meuangma, a 34-year-old former Chiang Saen agricultural cooperative employee, gave himself up soon after. Police said the man confessed to robbing Bt1.05 million with his brother-in-law to pay off debts. 
The brother-in-law, Cheunjai Konkham, 48, was found dead by the police in the Phayao forest. Police assumed he committed suicide. 
Pol Maj Gen Thammasak Pinthong, provincial police general, said that a forensic team has collected evidence and sent the body for an autopsy to verify the cause of death.

Man found hanging in forest after bank heist

The body of a man was found hanging in a forest in Phayao province today (May 21), three days after he held up a Krungthai Bank branch in Chiang Rai, said police.