Dad denies police bomb claim
Written by changthai11 on Friday, October 10th, 2008
Dad denies police bomb claim
WASSAYOS NGAMKHAM AND PRASIT TANGPRASERT
NONTHABURI : The father of Angkhana Radappanyawut is upset over police claims that she may have died after being blown up by bombs she allegedly carried in her own bag.
Angkhana’s father, Chinda, said at the funeral ceremony at Sri Prawat temple in Bang Kruai district that his 28-year-old daughter had not carried any bombs in her bag because he had the bag with him now.
He added that he would unveil the truth to counter the police account after the ceremony.
Angkhana died during the clashes between People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) demonstrators and police at the Royal Plaza on Tuesday.
Her Majesty the Queen had her representative send a wreath to the funeral yesterday.
Deputy police spokesman Pol Maj-Gen Surapol Thuanthong has said that Angkhana might have died because she was carrying bombs in her bag.
He also denied that a man in a black jacket standing with a pistol in his hand behind the Suan Dusit zoo fence was a plainclothes policeman.
His picture was taken by photographers as he was aiming his gun at PAD demonstrators in front of parliament on Tuesday.
Angkhana was one of the two people who died during the anti-government rally. Another was Somchai Choeyklin, who was thought to have been standing near a jeep which exploded. It was parked near the Chart Thai party head office on Sukhothai road.
Retired Pol Col Somchai was a brother-in-law of former senator of Buri Ram and PAD member Karoon Sai-ngam.
Bang Khla hospital director Direk Pakagul rushed a man to hospital who police claimed held a ping-pong bomb in his left hand. He said the object was actually a leather ball attached to a key chain.
Dr Direk, who oversees the hospital in Chachoengsao, said nurses, an ambulance driver and doctors at Ramathibodi hospital where the man was admitted could serve as witnesses.
He said he found the bleeding man sitting against a wall so he called an ambulance. The man could not speak because he was wounded. His right arm had been severed.
Deputy Metropolitan Police chief Pol Maj-Gen Amnuay Nimmano said police would bring cases against PAD security guards for assaulting, detaining and robbing police investigators.
Pol Capt Sarit Aksorn, deputy chief investigator of Metropolitan Police Division 1, said police were beaten about the head until they lost consciousness, and robbed.
