Council candidate killed in Chom Thong

Surat "Hung Watsai" Sathitangkul, 46, who had served three terms as Chom Thong district councillor before losing in last year's ballot, was shot twice in the stomach and once in the chest. He was walk-ing home from a friend's monk ordination ceremony at Wat Sai in Ekkachai Soi 23.

Police investigators found that two men on a motorbike waited inside the temple com-pound and one of them got off the bike to ambush Surat with multiple gunshots before fleeing the scene towards the mouth of Ekkachai Soi 23. They suspect the motive was a local political conflict. Police were checking if the culprits were caught on a security camera in front of the temple