PHUKET: A shocked Phuket bank manager looked on today as one customer stabbed another customer then killed himself with the same knife.
The murder-suicide took place in the conference room of the Krungsri Bank in Poonpol, Phuket City, soon after the three men kept their noon appointment.
First to die was Piboon Vachwanichsanong, 71, who owed money to the man who killed him.
Wielding the knife was Ponthakorn Treerabenjakul, 50, who had sought replayment of a loan to Khun Piboon.
Khun Piboon used the money to buy an apartment in the Ket Ho district of central Phuket about three years ago.
It's believed the money had been borrowed from the Krungsri Bank and then loaned on by Khun Pnthakorn to Khun Piboon.
But Khun Piboon stopped paying the money back about one year ago.
Today's meeting in the bank was to sort out the financial arrangements of both men.
But shocked bank manager Sopon Udomsub could only look on in horror when the meeting went wrong.
Khun Ponthakorn pulled a laerge knife and, according to an initial examination by forensic police, killed Khun Piboon with one strong blow to the chest then killed himself with a similar blow.
Photographs taken at the scene show both men lying side by side in a red pool of the blood of both men.
The murder-suicide took place in the conference room of the Krungsri Bank in Poonpol, Phuket City, soon after the three men kept their noon appointment.
First to die was Piboon Vachwanichsanong, 71, who owed money to the man who killed him.
Wielding the knife was Ponthakorn Treerabenjakul, 50, who had sought replayment of a loan to Khun Piboon.
Khun Piboon used the money to buy an apartment in the Ket Ho district of central Phuket about three years ago.
It's believed the money had been borrowed from the Krungsri Bank and then loaned on by Khun Pnthakorn to Khun Piboon.
But Khun Piboon stopped paying the money back about one year ago.
Today's meeting in the bank was to sort out the financial arrangements of both men.
But shocked bank manager Sopon Udomsub could only look on in horror when the meeting went wrong.
Khun Ponthakorn pulled a laerge knife and, according to an initial examination by forensic police, killed Khun Piboon with one strong blow to the chest then killed himself with a similar blow.
Photographs taken at the scene show both men lying side by side in a red pool of the blood of both men.
Absolutley tragic series of events.RIP to Khun Vachwanichsanong,.
Amazing that the murderer was able to take his own life by knife..One strike to the heart is all it takes, but is not a common method to self terminate.
Posted by mal on June 6, 2013 15:05