Assistant TAO chief slain in gun attack

YALA: An assistant chairman of a tambon administration organisation (TAO), who was also a construction contractor, was shot to death in a gun attack in Muang district of this southern border province on Saturday afternoon, police said.

Pol Col Suthivet Boonratkalin, deputy chief of Yala police, said the incident occurred at a house under construction on Wong Wian road in tambon Sateng.

Police rushed to the scene on being reported of the incident and found Abdultale Chapakiya, 48, lying dead in a pool of blood at the construction site.

Abdultale was assistant chairman of the Khao Tum TAO in tambon Khao Tum in Pattani’s Yarang district. He was also a construction contractor.

Construction workers told the police that while Abdultale was at the site for inspection a man came to see him and both had a heated argument. The man then pulled out a 9mm gun and fired ten shots…