Teenage couple arrested for canal-side murder in Chiang Mai

Police arrested a teenage couple after they murdered a Thai man on a road along an irrigation canal in the northern province of Chiang Mai.

On August 21, the lifeless body of a 45 year old Thai man near a roadside forest along the road in the San Sai district of Chaing Mai. The body, which bore several traces of an attack, was transferred to the San Sai Hospital for an autopsy while police searched for the attackers.

According to a report from San Sai Police Station, the deceased sustained severe facial and neck injuries, with two cut wounds on his knees. Blood was detected on some glass and two rocks at the scene of the crime. About 200 metres away from the body, officers found the deceased’s motorcycle with blood stains on it.

Investigating officers believed that the man was attacked. The investigation to identify the murderers discovered an unexpected…