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Breaking : Thai media reporting that six bodies have been found in a luxury hotel in central Bangkok. They are believed to be foreigners
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Six People Found Dead in Bangkok Hotel - Police Official
By Reuters
July 16, 2024
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Policemen walk inside Grand Hyatt Erawan hotel, which believed that at least 6 people have been reported dead, in Bangkok, Thailand, July 16, 2024.
REUTERS/Chalinee Thirasupa
BANGKOK (Reuters) - At least six people were found dead at a hotel in Bangkok on Tuesday, a Thai police official said, adding that they were Vietnamese nationals.
The police official, speaking on condition of anonymity, dismissed earlier reports in Thai media that the six people had been killed in a shooting.
"There is no sign of a shooting," the official told Reuters, without elaborating further.
Vietnam's embassy in Bangkok did not answer a call from Reuters on a telephone number listed on its website.
Police and medical services could not immediately be reached for comment.
(Reporting by Panarat Thepgumpanat; Writing by Devjyot Ghoshal and Poppy McPherson; Editing by Andrew Heavens and Gareth Jones)
Copyright 2024 Thomson Reuters.
Motive ? Because of scolding and cursing strangers ?
Inhaled cyanide thinking it was cocaine.
I'm sure the cyanide is not in gas form. I don't see anyone wearing a gas mask. And even PM went to the scene without COVID mask, let alone gas mask.
So it has to be powdery form. If that's the case, my prediction is very close.
You tell me Grand Hyatt Erawan got cyanide, I sure stay far far away ... not even Central World Plaza.
So it has to be powdery form. If that's the case, my prediction is very close.
You tell me Grand Hyatt Erawan got cyanide, I sure stay far far away ... not even Central World Plaza.
Vietcong’s?
Right beside the famed Erawan shrine.
Can you help to predict GE results this year?
Wah... Can kill 6 people in confined space is no joke. Maybe internal dispute. Vietnamese are siao one
Mystery surrounds deaths at Grand Hyatt hotel in Bangkok
5 hours agoBy Jamie Whitehead, BBC News
Thai police investigating the deaths say there are no signs of a struggle or robbery
Six people have been found dead in a luxury hotel suite in Thailand's capital, Bangkok.
Confusion and mystery has surrounded the grim discovery, with local media initially suggesting there had been a shooting at the five-star Grand Hyatt Erawan Bangkok, but police later dismissed these reports and said there was no evidence of gunfire.
Instead, authorities are investigating whether the victims died of poisoning.
The deceased - three men and three women - were all Vietnamese nationals, and some had dual American citizenship, Thailand's prime minister said.
Srettha Thavisin, who visited the scene, added that investigators suspect the victims had been dead for 24 hours by the time they were found and that post mortem examinations would be carried out.
He added that police "needed to find out the motives", and that the deaths were the result of a "killing", not a suicide.
Seven people were booked to stay at the hotel, but only five checked in and one person is currently unaccounted for, Metropolitan police chief Lt Gen Thiti Saengswang said.
One of the victims found in the room did not match the hotel's records.
He added that suspicious substances and the DNA of the victims were detected in drinks ordered to the suite just before 14:00 local time on Monday.
The food the victims ordered was not touched.
The food the victims had ordered remained untouched
The guests had been scheduled to check out on Monday.
They went from the hotel's seventh floor to the fifth, where their bodies were found by housekeepers in the suite's living room and bedroom.
Investigators say there is no evidence of a fight or a robbery, and the only wound found on one of the bodies was likely caused by a collapse.
In the bathroom, tea, energy drinks and honey were found, all in open containers, the police chief said.
It also appears that two of the victims tried to get to the hotel suite's door, which was locked from the inside, but did not manage to reach it in time.
The victims' luggage will now be searched as part of the investigation.
A spokesperson for the US State Department said they were "closely monitoring the situation", and expressed their condolences to the families of the victims.
Matthew Miller added that Washington was "ready to provide assistance" to them.
The Grand Hyatt Erawan Bangkok is in a popular tourist spot. Some of the victims were visiting Thailand for the first time, while others had been before, a police officer who wished to remain anonymous said.
The prime minister said that he did not want this incident to affect Thailand's image or have an impact on tourism - which is a key pillar of the Thai economy, but which has not fully recovered from the coronavirus pandemic.
The country has just expanded its visa-free entry scheme to 93 countries and territories in an effort to entice tourists back.
Only China and USA have the technology know how to produce such a high grade cyanide
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