Gun thought to have been be used in shooting of police officers found

The 25 police officers who were at the house of Praween Chanklai, aka “Kamnan Nok”, were questioned today (Saturday) by Crime Suppression Division officers, as another team located a handgun, believed to have been used by the now dead gunman in the murder of a highway police officer and the wounding of another at Praween’s house on Wednesday night.

A worker at the house in Nakhon Pathom province was questioned by CSD officers for several hours today, before he admitted to disposing of the gun, as ordered by the sub-district chief Praween, after the shooting.

He later led investigators to a spot near a swamp in Mueang district, where he buried the handgun wrapped in a piece of cloth. The weapon was found and submitted for ballistic tests, to confirm whether it is the actual the gun used in the shootings.

Meanwhile, Pol Gen Surachate Hakparn, the deputy national police chief,…