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Police ID suspects in kidnapping, murder of Chinese student in Bangkok

Thai police today were gathering more evidence to support warrants for the arrest of three men suspected of kidnapping and murdering a Chinese music student in Bangkok.

Police in the northwestern metro district of Bang Yai released the identities of Chen Saikang, Zhao Pengfei, and Zhao Xiongfei, who are suspected of abducting, torturing and ultimately killing 22-year-old Jin Can after her ransom went unpaid. The three men are now believed to be in China.

The university music student’s body was found Saturday stuffed inside a rainbow-colored bag in a canal at a Nonthaburi banana plantation. She had sustained cuts across her body and been strangled with a sheet. Her body was discovered by a passing motorcyclist drawn by the smell of decomposition. Forensic examiners believed she most likely died Wednesday.

Prior to her body being found, officers at neighboring…

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