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Police hunt for ‘Malay-speaking’ assailants after couple gunned down in Songkhla

Police hunt for ‘Malay-speaking’ assailants after couple gunned down in Songkhla

Songkhla: Police have released a sketch of what witnesses described as a “Malay-speaking gunman” after an elderly couple were gunned down at their house and furniture shop in Songkhla’s Thepha district on Sunday.

 

The shop house of Uthit Chanrat, 68, and his wife, Boontim Chanrat, also 68, had been among 10 locations at which insurgents carried out simultaneous arson attacks back in August, 2013.

However, police are not yet ruling out personal conflict being behind the murders, which happened at noon on Sunday when two men arrived on a motorcycle and shot the couple.

Police said they had watched footage of the two gunmen fleeing on a motorcycle in the direction of Pattani’s Khok Pho district, via Songkhla’s Saba Yoi district.

However, as the footage fails to show the faces of the two suspects, police have made a facial sketch of the gunman, who was the driver of the motorbike, based on accounts from workers at the Chanrats’ shop.

Police said the man appeared to be around 25 to 30 years old and about 1.70 metres tall.

They will compare the sketch with file photos and descriptions of other suspects in order to try to identify him.

The gunman had covered his face with a flu mask and spoke in Malay dialect, according to the shop workers.

Police found two spent 9-millimetre shells at the scene of the murders and are checking whether they match any weapon used in carrying out insurgency attacks in the southern border provinces.

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