Six foreign tourists were found dead in no less than a Thai luxurious hotel room in downtown Bangkok on Tuesday noon, Thai PM Srettha Thavisin asserted, Police believe it was a poisoning case.
Srettha confirmed that there was no apparent sign of a fight with the suspect as she added during a press briefing at the Grand Hyatt Erawan hotel in the posh Pathum Wan area where the incident took place.
The post-mortem examination shows that the victims might have taken poisonous substances, and this he said ruled out theft angles as well as shooting incidences.
According to the confirmation of the prime minister, all of the six victims were from Vietnam, and two of them had also American citizenship.
The bodies were discovered at around 4:30pm local time (9:30 GMT), police said, when cleaning workers arrived to clean up a room on the fifth floor of the building and befriended the bodies.
Srettha came to the scene shortly after the discovery and said that the man may have had help from a seventh Vietnamese person.
Thai police officer Thiti Sangsawang, who heads the Metropolitan Police Bureau in Bangkok further said that although the outsiders had not paid at the hotel that evening, they had not checked out from the hotel as required.
“The staff got to where the dead bodies were and reported to the management, who in turn reported the matter to police,” Thiti said.
An initial assessment provided no suggestion of contusions due to fight or theft; however, all six of them had poisoned themselves.
All in all, Thiti continued to explain the conflict, learning objectives, stakeholder identification, and the motives that need to be assessed. ‘What we can be sure of right now is that it cannot have been a suicide; this is conclusively a homicide,’