A gunman fired five shots into the home and office of a Pheu Thai MP for Khon Kaen after he left the place only five minutes earlier. No injuries were reported.
Nawat Torchareonsook, 44, on Sunday filed a complaint about the incident at Nong Rua police station in the northeastern province.
Mr Nawat told police that he and his family had left his two-story home about five minutes earlier when an employee, who was working in his office on the first floor, phoned him to say that a man, who came past in a pickup truck, shot at his house five times. He then fled.
An inspection found two bullets holes fired from an unidentified weapon into the house’s two-metre-high frontal wall, but did not find bullet casings at the scene.
The suspect later went on to fire six shots at the home of the president of the local women's association which was only 500 metres from Mr Nawat’s home office, police said.
“When the culprit attacked, there was only an employee in the office and my family and I had just left home five minutes earlier. The gunman may have wanted to kill me but did not know that I was not home because I was driving my daughter’s car,” Mr Nawat said.
The shooting occurred a day before an election for members of the Khon Kaen Provincial Administration Organisation. Mr Nawat believed the attack was politically motivated as he had been attacked by unidentified gunmen as many as three times in past elections.
Pol Col Ponechai Krongyuth, chief of Nong Rua police station, said the shooting was more likely to be intimidation by the Pheu Thai MP’s political rivals because a projectile investigation indicated that the suspect mostly fired his weapon, thought to be a pistol, into the air, not just into the house.
Nawat Torchareonsook, 44, on Sunday filed a complaint about the incident at Nong Rua police station in the northeastern province.
Mr Nawat told police that he and his family had left his two-story home about five minutes earlier when an employee, who was working in his office on the first floor, phoned him to say that a man, who came past in a pickup truck, shot at his house five times. He then fled.
An inspection found two bullets holes fired from an unidentified weapon into the house’s two-metre-high frontal wall, but did not find bullet casings at the scene.
The suspect later went on to fire six shots at the home of the president of the local women's association which was only 500 metres from Mr Nawat’s home office, police said.
“When the culprit attacked, there was only an employee in the office and my family and I had just left home five minutes earlier. The gunman may have wanted to kill me but did not know that I was not home because I was driving my daughter’s car,” Mr Nawat said.
The shooting occurred a day before an election for members of the Khon Kaen Provincial Administration Organisation. Mr Nawat believed the attack was politically motivated as he had been attacked by unidentified gunmen as many as three times in past elections.
Pol Col Ponechai Krongyuth, chief of Nong Rua police station, said the shooting was more likely to be intimidation by the Pheu Thai MP’s political rivals because a projectile investigation indicated that the suspect mostly fired his weapon, thought to be a pistol, into the air, not just into the house.
