PHUKET: Police in Patong are waiting to interview a man who was seriously injured when attacked with a chopper at the weekend.
The man, Werayut Turputi, 22, was hit by the attacker outside Taipan nightclub about 1am on Saturday.
He was hit once with the chopper. Doctors say it was a deep wound, severing an artery.
Khun Werayut is in the intensive care unit at Patong Hospital. Police believe he will be able to tell them the identity of the assailant.
Khun Werayut works as a security guard at Taipan, which is in Rat-U-Tit 200 Pi Road, close to the intersection with Soi Bangla, Patong's famous night walking street.
Phuket Visa Run Border Port Faces Cholera OutbreakThe man, Werayut Turputi, 22, was hit by the attacker outside Taipan nightclub about 1am on Saturday.
He was hit once with the chopper. Doctors say it was a deep wound, severing an artery.
Khun Werayut is in the intensive care unit at Patong Hospital. Police believe he will be able to tell them the identity of the assailant.
Khun Werayut works as a security guard at Taipan, which is in Rat-U-Tit 200 Pi Road, close to the intersection with Soi Bangla, Patong's famous night walking street.
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Is a chopper a meat cleaver?
Posted by Anonymous on October 30, 2011 19:37
Editor Comment:
Could be, or a machete. All police have is the wound.