Police have released these photos of the
suspects and ask for help in locating them.
Boonlua Chatree
Huay Yai police are seeking two central Thailand men and
two women for the kidnapping and attempted murder of a pair of Nonthburi men
in the Banglamung sub-district.
Arrest warrants were issued Aug. 20 for Punya Kranud, 40,
of Pathumthani, and Khomsan Kerdkaew, 31, of Pranakorn Sri Ayuthaya; and two
women identified only as “May” and “Bow” in the Aug. 19 kidnapping and
shooting of Suriyawuth Luaprasong, 32, and Sakda Mongkolrud, 33.
Suriyawuth was shot three times in the chest, but
survived after feigning his own death.
Huay Yai Police Lt. Col. Phaksuwat Chomthanorm alleged
Punya was behind the kidnapping plot, as he was angry with Suriyawuth over
the victim’s alleged affair with the kidnapper’s girlfriend. Phaksuwat added
that a dispute over drugs also played into the crime.
Suriyawuth and Sakda were forced into a Japanese-model
vehicle in Nonthaburi that had license plates belonging to Punya’s
Mercedes-Benz, Phaksuwat said. The kidnappers then took the two men to a
house in Huay Yai were they were shot.
Investigators enlisted Punya’s girlfriend to assist in
capturing him, but the move failed and the men remain at large.
