KANCHANABURI: Police have arrested a Thai man believed to have been involved in the brutal murder of his Myanmar brother-in-law, whose headless body was found floating in a river in Sai Yok district.
The suspect, identified only as Mr Sunai, was apprehended at a shelter in Thong Pha Phum district. He reportedly confessed he had cut off the victim’s head and then his hands with a knife before throwing the body and its severed parts, together with the knife, into the Kwai Noi River.
The headless body of the Myanmar worker, 40, was found floating in the Kwai Noi River in Sai Yok district on Monday.
Mr Sunai reportedly said he had acted alone and shared accommodation with the victim. The two men lived in workers' quarters near the fruit plantation where they laboured.
Before the killing, he reportedly said, he was hungry and the victim suddenly kicked him. He reportedly confessed that in a fit of rage, he picked up the knife and committed the grisly murder.
Earlier on Wednesday, Pol Col Thanee Sa-nguancheen, chief of Sai Yok police, called a meeting with investigators handling the case. Mr Sunai, who could not be found after the murder, was identified as a suspect and a manhunt was launched.
Police had also summonsed three Myanmar nationals - two men and one woman - working at a rubber plantation in the district for questioning about the death of their compatriot.
All three denied involvement in the murder, and were later released.
