Youth killed over girl's telephone number
Police arrested two young men yesterday over the fatal stabbing
of an eighth-grade boy in downtown Bangkok early yesterday morning.
Baramee Khammuengkhoon, 19, and an unnamed boy, aged 17, were arrested and later admitted to the crime, which occurred near Victory Monument. But Din Daeng police are still looking for three others - Atthaphol Yoo-ain, 19; a man known only as Seksan, aged 20; and a 17-year-old known only as O. Police, quoting witnesses, said the two arrested suspects and the three others allegedly cornered victim Pheeraphong Waen-ngern, 14, and stabbed him 10 times after he scolded them for asking for a phone number from a female student he was chatting with in front of his school, Santiraj Witthayalai, at 1.30am yesterday. The five initially harassed the victim and slapped his face several times before assaulting him and stabbing him with a switchblade. The female student said Pheeraphong told her to run when the assault began. The unidentified student said she had seen the suspects several times and they had asked for her phone number once, but she refused to tell them.
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