Thirty law enforcement officials arrested a man who had taken a household of 5 hostages for 18 hours inside a home in Samut Prakarn province close to Bangkok. The suspect refused to disclose his motives to the authorities.
A team of officers from the Samut Prakarn Provincial Police Office, and the Bang Plee Police Station, arrived on the scene and cordoned off the area surrounding the house in the Bang Plee district to put strain on the suspect.
The household was that of a former community leader named Somchai Auphan. The officers efficiently rescued 4 hostages, together with Somchai, his mother in legislation, 14 yr outdated daughter, and one other youngster. However, Wirut nonetheless held Somchai’s spouse hostage and threatened her with a knife.
Wirut contacted a female pal and requested her to bring him water at 7.30am. The officers collaborated with the pal to add an anaesthetic to the water before giving it to Wirut. While the police waited for Wirut to fall asleep, he all of a sudden threw a bomb to scare the officers, forcing them to enter the building to subdue him with a taser and rescue the remaining hostage.
One police officer got a small minimize wound on the ankle while serving to the hostage. Model suffered a minor damage due to the knife. Somchai advised the police that Wirut was his former employer who had simply resigned as a outcome of a playing debt. He got here to his home the evening before and abruptly grabbed a knife, threatening each family member.
According to Somchai, his daughter and spouse were taken right into a bed room, whereas Wirut ordered everyone to comply with his directions, threatening to kill the two. The daughter managed to inform relations, who later filed a complaint with the police..