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A man fatally shot his estranged wife and then turned the gun on himself at her house in Tak’s Phop Phra district Tuesday morning, after she had reportedly refused to get back together with him, police said.

Police on Monday objected to the release on bail of a 30-year-old Thai man who had allegedly opened fire twice at a group of youngsters, reportedly merely to threaten them, but whose stray bullet fatally struck a Mathayom 2 schoolgirl instead in Buri Ram’s Lam Plai Mat district on Saturday afternoon.

An explosion and fire in central Mexico killed at least 73 people after hundreds swarmed to the site of an illegal fuel-line tap to gather gasoline amid a government crackdown on fuel theft, officials said.

Police have launched a manhunt for a police senior sergeant major who allegedly shot dead a chabu delivery boy in Bangkok in anger at a noisy motorcycle.

A man shot dead his estranged wife in Samut Sakhon's Muang district on Wednesday morning before drinking herbicide and fleeing the scene, police said.

FOUR people – three Thai nationals and the Czech pilot – have been killed in a helicopter crash over a factory in the west of the European country.

More than 100 Indian rescue workers were using steel cutters and drills on Wednesday to try and free a dozen people feared trapped under the rubble of a collapsed six-storey building outside Delhi.

Four miners were killed and three others were trapped underground after an earthquake hit a gold mine outside Johannesburg, its owners said on Friday.

At least 18 people were killed when a truck packed with labourers overturned on a winding highway in western India on Tuesday, police said.

An elephant killed a 70-year-old farmer in Nakhon Ratchasima on Thursday night and stood by while officials, alerted to the attack, searched for the body.

A Thai woman, who was sought by police over the murder of her Italian ex-husband, was arrested on Monday in a longan plantation in Tak’s Wang Chao district, five kilometres from the woods where her French boyfriend was captured on Sunday night.

A village defense volunteer was stomped to death by a wild elephant he encountered in a sugarcane plantation in Sa Kaew’s Khlong Hat district. The body of Ampai Wannakul, 52, was found at the plantation in Tambon Sai Thong yesterday morning.