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Published on November 28, 2007

Weerayuth Laiudomslip, 11, sustained a severe blow to his face and heavy bleeding after four men on two motorcycles threw a rock and fled. The three other people injured included two-year-old Premmika Phromchana.

Noi Phromchana, an uncle of Weerayuth and the father of Premmika, said he had no clues as to what led to the attack at midnight on Monday.

Police found a rock thought to have been used as the missile left abandoned and a test was under way to collect fingerprints on it.

Police said two teenage men later contacted staff at Salaya Hospital, where all those injured received treatment, and asked about their condition. Witnesses said the men arrived at the hospital on a blue Honda Wave motorcycle and one of them was chubby and had curly hair.

Police said the attackers could be members of a local robbery gang who carried our similar acts of violence many years ago. They will be charged with attempted murder and robbery if they are arrested.

Robberies or attacks using rocks as missiles take place regularly in provinces, including a recent incident in Ayutthaya. Police are making such cases their priority after Her Majesty the Queen expressed concern over the vicious nature of the crimes.

Meanwhile, a woman earlier lodged a complaint with the Kom Chad Luek newspaper that local police in Nakhon Sawan had made little progress in solving an attack a month ago on her younger brother, who died four days later.

Kenika Onsiri said Phakhin was hit in the face with a large rock thrown by a man who was part of a teenage motorcycle gang when he pulled over by a road to check whether a tyre of his sedan had burst after it had earlier run over a glass bottle.

She said police had not yet found the lone attacker, although four of Phakhin's friends who were at the scene identified the suspect and police later obtained an arrest warrant for him.

Phakhin succumbed to severe brain injuries and died in hospital on November 3.

The Nation