German killed in Pattaya shooting

(dpa) - A gunman riding pillion on a motorcycle on Monday shot dead a 64-year-old retired German policeman in the beach resort city of Pattaya, police said.

Heinrich Hermann Friedrich, from Kalisch, Germany, was shot dead at 12:10 am Monday as he was walking to his residence at Pattaya, where the retired policeman has lived for the past eight years.

Eyewitnesses said Friedrich was shot by an unidentified assailant riding pillion on a motorcycle. He took four bullets in his head, back, chest and left leg.

Police said Friedrich's former Thai wife was the prime suspect in the murder.

"According to Friedrich's current Thai wife he had been having problems with his first wife over the sale of some property," Pattaya Pol Sub-Lt Nittipumi Bootwong told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa in a telephone interview.

Cambodia air crash may have killed 20

Phnom Penh (dpa) - A plane in Cambodia carrying about 20 passengers and crew was believed to have gone down in thick jungle south of Phnom Penh, an aviation official said Monday.

The official, who declined to be named, said search parties were being dispatched to Kampot province, about 150 kilometres from the capital, but there was no confirmation yet as to the exact location of the crash. Foreigners were believed to be among the missing.

He declined to immediately confirm the name of the charter company operating the flight but said the missing plane was believed to be a Russian-made aircraft that had been making a scheduled flight from Siem Reap, the gateway to the famed Angkor temples, to the beach resort of Sihanoukville.

The plane took off from the northern town of Siem Reap early Monday and lost contact at around 11 am, he said. Aircraft of its type have a capacity of around 16 passengers and usually carry four crew.

Sihanoukville officially reopened a regional airport earlier this year, and tourism officials have been heavily promoting flights direct from Angkor, the nation's top tourist draw, to that area's pristine beaches, hoping to boost the country's vital tourism industry.

Credit : www.bangkokpost.com

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