A murder suspect was found hanged with a towel inside a detention cell at Muang police station in Kalasin yesterday. He was believed to have committed suicide, police said yesterday.
Police said the man, Thongkham Phuthaddok, 55, had fled into a rice field and threatened to take his own life after shooting a woman, Suksom Thansawai, 48, dead with a handgun.
He was arrested on Saturday afternoon and brought to the station where he was detained in a cell pending further legal action.
Thongkham was found dead inside his cell. He was hanging from an iron bar, suspended with a blue towel.
Pol Lt Col Suthep Pukanha, the station's deputy chief investigator, said surveillance camera footage showed Thongkham woke up at 6am. He went to the toilet before returning to sit alone in the cell. He was found dead about 20 minutes later at a spot not covered by the camera.
The body was sent to Kalasin Hospital for an autopsy.
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