A suspected drug trafficker was killed and his three-month-old son injured in a shootout with police in Bangkok’ s Pomprap Sattruphai district yesterday.
Another suspected trafficker was also injured in the gunfight, which lasted more than 10 minutes.
Ten officers were sent to track a suspected drug trafficking truck, which was traveling from the North.
The suspects in the truck, aware that they were being followed, tried to evade the police but were thwarted when the police shot out the tyres of the truck.
After a gunfight, police found Pichet Dokmaipum, 37, from Saraburi, beside the pickup truck.
He had been injured and sustained several bullet wounds to his right arm and jaw.
Another man was found dead with two bullet wounds to the head in the rear seat of the vehicle.
Beside him was a baby boy about three months old with a minor cut on his forehead.
Officers found 68,000 methamphetamine pills along with four kilogrammes of crystal methamphetamine, or ya ice, hidden inside a subwoofer box packed in brown cardboard boxes, the Bangkok Post reported.
