Two Japanese men arrested in Bangkok for arrest on December 30 17:06
A Japanese police arrested two suspects on Thursday after a Japanese man was cut off by a two-man man with a knife and his wallet was taken off on the streets of the Thai capital Bangkok. Did. As the number of foreign tourists, including Japanese, is expected to increase during the New Year holidays, the Embassy of Japan in Bangkok has been calling on people to refrain from going out alone by night.
According to Thai police, a 37-year-old Japanese man walked home alone on the streets of the Ekamai district, where many Japanese in Bangkok live, dawn early this month. A pair of men cut their backs and heads with a knife and ran away with a wallet containing cash, credit cards, etc. of about 70,000 yen in Japanese yen.
Local police held a press conference on the 30th and announced that two 23-year-old and 18-year-old Thai men had been arrested on the night of 29th, based on images from security cameras and other sources. Police disclosed the seized knives and motorcycles, saying they had acknowledged the charges.
According to the police, the life of a Japanese man is no different.
In Thailand, the number of foreign tourists, including Japanese, is expected to increase during the year-end and New Year holidays, and the Japanese embassy in Bangkok is calling on people to stay out alone at night even in areas where many Japanese people gather. .
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Thai police inspected two suspects at the crime scene on Wednesday.
In this situation, the men recaptured the situation at that time, such as cutting off the victim's head when running away after stealing the wallet.
One of the suspects shouted, "I'm sorry," to a question from the press.
The crime scene is also shown on a security camera near the scene, where the victim who resists taking away his belongings is dragged by a man wearing a helmet and falls down kneeling.