A Thai drug addict killed a Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC) officer and carried out a random attack that injured six victims as he tried to evade arrest in the northern provinces of Thailand.
The death of the VDC officer, 42 year old Pisit Sittichum, was reported to the Ngao Police Station in Lampang province at 8pm yesterday, December 26. Pisit was stabbed to death at the old district office by a Thai man, later identified as 39 year old Nonpawit. Pisit was taken to hospital but died on the way.
Witnesses told police that Nonpawit arrived at the scene on a red and white Honda Wave motorcycle. Pisit asked him what he was doing there, but Nonpawit refused to answer and immediately stabbed Pisit in the stomach before fleeing the scene.
Nonpawit was later arrested in the Mae Jai district in Phayao province after he escaped arrest nearly 80 kilometres away from the…
