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A MAN shot a female cashier through the head tonight at a restaurant in Phuket City, took about three steps, then turned the gun on himself.
The cashier slumped dead with a pen still in her hand, poised to calculate the next bill. The two shots horrified diners in the restaurant.
The shooter, Bandit Anurakbandit, 53, owned the restaurant, Klua Pailin, in eastern Phuket City, and another of the same name at Kathu waterfall.
Witness Awatsada Tongsakul, who was having dinner around 9.30pm with three friends and knew Khun Bandit well, said Khun Bandit was sitting in the restaurant at a table with three lawyers.
''He walked around to every table, laughing and joking earlier in the evening,'' Khun Awatsada said. ''He seemed to be enjoying the singing and dancing on the stage.
''I saw him walk to the cashier. He pulled the gun, put it to her head, raised his eyebrows while looking at her, and then fired.
''I couldn't believe it. For a second I thought it was play acting. She was his sister-in-law.
''Her husband was in the kitchen and we heard him cry out when he learned his wife had been shot. He loved her a lot. They had one child. She would have been in her late 20s.''
Investigating police from Phuket City have no explanation for the murder-suicide at this stage.
Phuket City Police Superintendent Colonel Wanchai Eakpornpit was quickly at the restaurant, which is on a corner on Anuparbphuketkan Road, the most popular route to Koh Sireh.
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Khun Bandit owned a gun.
Not surprised.
Posted by mark on November 13, 2010 01:40