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Gunfire at meat firm kills 2

Police seal off the three-storey premises of Flying Board Bangkok Co on Soi Sukhumvit 49/6 after the shooting. POLICE PHOTO

A Frenchman and a Thai woman were found shot dead and another Frenchman wounded at a cold-meats company in Bangkok on Wednesday.

Police said the shooting occurred at Flying Board Bangkok Co on Soi Sukhumvit 49/6 around noon.

Police found the body of the Frenchman in the kitchen on the ground floor of the building. The dead Thai woman was found in a cold storage room on the same floor.

Both appeared to have been shot with the same weapon, a 9mm pistol.

They were Marc Lohberger, 66, and Wiranya Meeyai, 43, according to police.

Another French national was lying wounded, also on the ground floor. He was taken to Samitivej Hospital, and was in a safe condition.

He was identified as David Bouton, 48.

Flying Board Bangkok Co supplies meat to restaurants and hotels.

The wounded man, Mr Bouton, is one of the partners, according to police.


An assistant chef at the company told police that she heard the two Frenchmen quarrelling, and then the sound of gunshots.

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