A Mae Lamoon forest protection official who shot dead a man on Monday night in Kanchanaburi’s Sisawat district and then claimed to have mistaken him for an illegal logger has been dismissed from the civil service pending a murder investigation.

A Mae Lamoon forest protection official who shot dead a man on Monday night in Kanchanaburi’s Sisawat district and then claimed to have mistaken him for an illegal logger has been dismissed from the civil service pending a murder investigation.