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‘Indian gangster’ shot dead at Phuket hotel

‘Indian gangster’ shot dead at Phuket hotel

Victim was carrying stolen Canadian ID, police hunting for two shooters seen on security video

A forensic officer collects evidence in the parking lot of a Phuket hotel where a man carrying what was believed to be stolen Canadian ID was found shot to death. (Photo: Achadtaya Chuenniran)

PHUKET: Police are searching for two men who were caught on camera shooting an Indian gangster to death in the parking lot of a hotel in downtown Muang district of this island province.

Police originally said the dead man was a Canadian — and earlier reports in local media including the Bangkok Post carried this assertion — but he was in fact an Indian national with a long criminal history in Canada, the Vancouver Sun…

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