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GRAY AREA from the Phuket Gazette
PUBLISHER ASSASSINATED - Phuket Gazette May 2006
PHUKET CITY: Opas Noothong, 59, owner of the recently-launched newspaper
Fahkumnod ("Natural Order") and of the Jao Khun Karaoke on Luang Por Rd, was
gunned down by two teenagers while walking back to his office about 11:30 pm
on Saturday.
Pol Capt Rassada Kluengwong, of Phuket City Police Station, told the
Gazette, "Witnesses said that K. Opas was walking from Chatuchak market [on
Phang Nga Rd] back to his office.
"He was about 10 meters from his office [on Luang Por Rd] when two teenagers
on a motorcycle rode up to him, shot him three times in the back, and then
rode off."
Capt Rassada explained that K. Opas' son Kraiwit, 31, who was in the
Fahkumnod office, heard the gunshots and looked out the window in time to
see the killers fleeing the scene.
"His son took him to Vachira Phuket Hospital, but he died that night from
his wounds," Capt Rassada said.
He added that K. Opas had been shot once in the right lung, and twice in the
liver.
"We are continuing our investigation. There are about five witnesses [to the
shooting], and there are a few things about his newspaper that we are
looking into. He also had problems related to his former work [as a
reporter]," Capt Rassada said.
"We have set up an investigation team to catch the killers quickly," he
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