{"id":8075,"date":"2024-07-18T13:11:15","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T08:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=8075"},"modified":"2024-07-18T13:11:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T08:11:17","slug":"thailand-says-cyanide-killed-6-foreigners-in-hotel-including-perpetrator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/news\/thailand-says-cyanide-killed-6-foreigners-in-hotel-including-perpetrator\/","title":{"rendered":"Thailand says cyanide killed 6 foreigners in hotel, including perpetrator"},"content":{"rendered":"

BANGKOK, July 18 (Reuters) – Cyanide poisoning caused the deaths of six foreigners whose bodies were found in a room in a plush Bangkok hotel, Thai authorities said on Wednesday, with the suspected killer among the dead.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Traces of the rapid-acting, deadly chemical were found during autopsies of the bodies and on drinking glasses and a teapot in the room at the luxury Grand Hyatt Erawan hotel where the dead were\u00a0discovered late on Tuesday, according to police and a hospital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interviews with relatives of the three women and three men who died revealed there had been a dispute over debt related to an investment, according to police, who said they were investigating how the cyanide was obtained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The six were all of Vietnamese ethnicity, two of those U.S. nationals. Police said the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation had assisted with the investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We can assume that the six died from cyanide,” Chulalongkorn Hospital’s Kornkiat Vongpaisarnsin told reporters, adding that results of further tests would be available on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The U.S. State Department said it was monitoring the situation and local authorities were responsible for the investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vietnam’s foreign ministry confirmed four of the dead were Vietnamese nationals and its embassy in Thailand was coordinating closely with authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We hope that the victims’ families soon overcome this great loss,” foreign ministry spokesperson Pham Thu Hang said.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BANGKOK, July 18 (Reuters) – Cyanide poisoning caused the deaths of six foreigners whose bodies were found in a room in a plush Bangkok hotel, Thai authorities said on Wednesday, with the suspected killer among the dead. Traces of the rapid-acting, deadly chemical were found during autopsies of the bodies and on drinking glasses and […]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":8076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8075"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}