"Five killed"

RELATIVES AND FRIENDS yesterday called for the death penalty to be handed down to murder suspect Teerapol Pin-amorn following his arrest in the border province of Ranong for killing five members of his family.

Thirty-seven-year-old Teerapol Pin-amorn, who allegedly shot dead his pregnant wife, her parents and two aunts and wounded two other relatives at their home in Uttaradit’s Pichai district on Sunday night, has been arrested in the border province of Ranong’s Kra Buri district, deputy national police spokesman Pol Colonel Krissana Pattanacharoen said on Tuesday.

The hunt continued on Monday for a 37-year-old Ranong man who allegedly shot dead his four-months-pregnant wife, her parents and two aunts and wounded two other relatives at their home in Uttaradit’s Pichai district on Sunday night.

Five people were killed and 21 injured after a hijacked bus crashed into pedestrians in east China's Fujian province on Tuesday afternoon, state media reported.

A man was killed along with his boyfriend, parents and aunt after his car crashed against a roadside tree in Sukhothai's Si Satchanalai district late on Friday night.

Poor visibility in fog is being blamed for a two-car collision in Si Sa Ket on Monday morning that left five people dead.

Five adults have succumbed to the dengue virus in four Bangkok districts this year, a senior official of the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration said on Tuesday.

A helicopter crashed into a hillside in central Nepal on Saturday, killing five on board, including a Japanese tourist, officials said.

Washington - Forty-four people were shot across the Midwestern US city of Chicago Sunday, US media reported, with five killed in a wave of violence police branded "totally unacceptable."

Five people were killed and four others were hospitalised Saturday in an arson attack on a motel in downtown Seoul, police said.

Five people were killed and one injured when a minivan rammed into the rear of a running truck in Ayutthaya’s Bangpain district on Wednesday.