Another Aussie shot, out near Cambodia
A second Australian has been shot in Thailand - a week after a Brisbane woman died in a drive-by shooting in Kanchanaburi.
Australian Ambassador Bill Paterson confirmed yesterday that a 22-year-old man was shot in Chantaburi, near the Cambodian border, on Tuesday night. Leigh Birkinshaw, 22, from Wagga, south of Sydney, was now in a stable condition in a Bangkok hospital, he said. The circumstances in which the man was shot were not yet known, the ambassador said. Birkinshaw was moved to Bangkok on Wednesday from Chantaburi, which is about 245 kilometres southeast of Bangkok. Queensland nurse Pam Fitzpatrick, 26, died last week after being shot in the neck while drinking with her younger sister and friends at a bar in Kanchanaburi after the Australia-Brazil World Cup clash. More than 60 police are investigating that incident, but have little to show for their efforts to date. They are looking at whether the shooting was related to a dispute with the bar owner, or just a random attack by drunken youths. Jim Pollard The Nation
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