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Residents live in fear after condo crimes

Montri Yaikrathok, 41, a condo security guard, is handcuffed after being charged with raping a condo tenant and drug abuse. He was captured in Sa Kaeo and brought back to Bangkok. police photo

Two recent attacks on tenants, one of them fatal, in condominiums have set off alarm bells about safety in these buildings and the kind of people employed to protect them.

In the early hours of Dec 26, a 23-year-old part-time warehouse worker was stabbed in a condo in Bang Phli district of Samut Prakan.

A male tenant, identified as Natthachai Art-samart, 31, allegedly admitted to police he attacked the young woman with a knife as he tried to force his way into her room.

She suffered a deep cut to her leg which bled heavily. She struggled in vain to get help and died due to blood loss outside the condo’s lift.

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