Cop Sacked After Shooting Tourist Dead

BANGKOK, Dec 12 (TNA) – A policeman has been sacked after he shot a French tourist dead at a condominium building in Sukhumvit area this morning. Pol Sen Sgt Maj Kantapong Huadsri, attached to the Lumpini station surrendered and confessed to shooting the 41-year-old French man, identified as Malik Djamel. Immigration Bureau chief Pol Lt Gen Surachate Hakpal said the policeman and the French tourist had a quarrel at a bar in Soi Sukhumvit 11/1. They got into a drunken fight and the policeman left the bar and appeared at the building in Soi Sukhumvit 13 with a gun. He shot the French man in the head and torso in front of a doughnut shop on the first floor of the building. The man died at the scene. (TNA)