(17 Jul 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bangkok – 17 July 2024
1. Wide of news conference
2. Wide of media and police officers
3. SOUNDBITE (Thai) Noppasin Punsawat, Bangkok deputy police chief
“We found traces of cyanide in the cups that we found in the room. There was cyanide in all six cups.”
4. Wide of news conference
5. SOUNDBITE (Thai) Noppasin Punsawat, Bangkok deputy police chief
“There is someone – one of the six of them – that caused this by using cyanide.”
6. Various of police slide illustrating their investigation
7. SOUNDBITE (Thai) Noppasin Punsawat, Bangkok deputy police chief
“Therefore, this case is a personal matter among these six individuals. It is not anything to do with a gang or an organized crime that was behind or committing this in Thailand.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bangkok – 16 July 2024
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8. Various of exterior of hotel with police activity
STORYLINE:
Thai police said Wednesday they have found traces of cyanide in the cups of six people found dead in a central Bangkok luxury hotel.
The bodies were found Tuesday in the downtown hotel Grand Hyatt Erawan Bangkok. Upon checking hotel records and security footage, there were no other visitors to the room apart from the six that were found, police said.
Bangkok deputy police chief Noppasin Punsawat said it appeared the culprit was one of the dead.
“There is someone – one of the six of them – that caused this by using cyanide.”
Police have identified the dead as two Vietnamese Americans and four Vietnamese nationals and said there were three men and three women.
Their ages ranged from 37 to 56, Noppasin said. He said the case appeared to be personal and did not involve organized crime.
The Vietnamese and United States Embassies have been contacted over the deaths, and the American FBI was en route.
A husband and wife among the dead had invested money with two of the other victims, suggesting that money could be a motive, said Noppasin, citing information obtained from relatives of the victims.
The investment was meant to build a hospital in Japan and the group might have been meeting to settle the matter.
The six had last been seen alive when food was delivered to the room on Monday afternoon.
The staff saw one woman who received the food, and security footage showed the rest arriving one by one to the room shortly after.
No one was seen leaving and the door was locked from the inside. A hotel maid found them Tuesday afternoon when they failed to check out of the room.
Noppasin said Wednesday that a seventh person whose name was part of the hotel booking was identified by police as a sibling of one of the six victims, who left the country on July 10.
Police believe the seventh person had no involvement in the deaths.
AP video by Jerry Harmer
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