Man accidentally shoots himself in the mouth in northeast Thailand

A man accidentally shot and killed himself while loading gunpowder into his cap gun at a rubber plantation in Roi Et province, northeast Thailand, yesterday evening. Police suspect he was holding the trigger end of the gun with his toes and blowing gunpowder into the barrel with his mouth when he must have accidentally pulled the trigger.

The man’s wife returned from the village to discover 62 year old Nuchan Ponyiam lying face down in a pool of blood, having shot himself in the mouth.

Police suspect Nuchan suffered the same fate as another man who also shot himself in the mouth with a cap gun, also at a rubber plantation in Roi Et province, in April. Police found traces of gunpowder on the toes of a 40 year old man named Weerasak who died from shooting himself in the mouth with the same type of gun.

Nuchan’s 59 year old wife Laong Phonyiam testified to police that her husband…