Thread: Monk shot dead by a gunman as he was on alm-receiving round

The abbot of a temple in Udon Thani’s Muang district was shot dead as he was returning to the temple following his morning alm-receiving round Sunday morning.

Phra Bundit Subunthito, the abbot of Wat Pator Seesiad in Tambon Ban Tard, Muang district, was accompanied by a man and a boy on his alm-receiving round when he was gunned down.

Eyewitnesses told police that the gunman and his accomplice were riding on a pickup truck as they trailed the monk without his notice. When Phra Bundit was approaching the temple, the truck driver pulled the vehicle to stop in front of the monk, then the gunman disembarked and fired two shots at the monk, killing him at the scene.

Pol Maj-Gen Chaiyat Saithin, the Udon Thani provincial police chief, disclosed that the victim, former director of Nayoong hospital, used to be harassed by some men who also scattered spikes on roads leading to the temple to prevent people from making merits at the temple.

Monk shot dead by a gunman as he was on alm-receiving round - Thai PBS English News

a bit more than spikes on the road to this story methinks

Monk:



Or monk:

Pol Maj-Gen Chaiyat Saithin, the Udon Thani provincial police chief, disclosed that the victim, former director of Nayoong hospital, used to be harassed by some men ...this paragraph says it all . a shit well dead me thinks. f******* monk my arse.

It's not difficult to become a monk in Thailand so good people and bad people can become monks and people can be monks for a long time or a very short time. In this case, the guy was the abbot of a temple so one would imagine he has been a monk for quite some time.

I find it odd that, apparently, eyewitnesses could see the gunman and his accomplice riding on a pickup truck trailing the victim but the monk could not.

Murdering the abbot of a temple and scattering spikes on roads leading to the temple to prevent people from making merit at the temple make me wonder if there is some inter-temple rivalry in Udon Thani. Most bizarre.

lob, why do you think a man would be a "a shit well dead" simply for being a former director of a hospital?

Bullet only clue as police probe Udon monk's death

A WAR-GRADE weapon was used in the Sunday murder of Phra Bundit Subandito, an abbot of Wat Pa Ban Tor Seesiad in Udon Thani province, police said yesterday.

Investigators yesterday unsuccessfully tried to interview persons who might be of interest to the case as family members collected the monk's ashes and disciples cleaned the temple after the Tuesday cremation ritual.

The head of Provincial Police Region 4's Investigation Division, Pol Maj-General Peerapong Wongsaman, explained to the late monk's mother, Ruwanee Sanguankaew, that police could still proceed with a murder investigation although nobody had given testimony so far and it would take time to solve the case.

He thanked the monk's father - who is also a monk - for allowing police to remove a bullet from the body.

It was initially considered to be a .223-calibre round, a type used for many kinds of guns including war weapons like the M16 rifle or the HK33 assault rifle.

Peerapong was told that the 48-year-old monk - who used to be a physician and director of two local government hospitals before entering the monkhood in 1997 - did not talk much and did not even own a mobile phone.

The late monk's father, however, declined to respond to police as he cited the dharma perspective that the event was already ended and all should be forgiven.

Peerapong then headed the police team back to inspect the scene one more time.

Earlier yesterday, Udon Thani provincial police chief Pol Maj-General Chaiyat Saithin told a teleconference of investigators that police would check further the bank accounts under other persons' names found in the slain monk's residence. The accounts were in relation to various projects that the monk oversaw, he added.

The .223 bullet would be tested to find whether it matched any gun used in other crimes, he said, adding that police could not yet confirm the type of gun used or whether a silencer was fitted. Witnesses said the gunshots were not loud.


Bullet only clue as police probe Udon monk's death - The Nation

or another case of sexual abuse by a monk,......
There were two such cases in the news today,...

"Business dispute".

Hospital chief to be questioned in abbot’s murder case

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A hospital chairman has been summoned to be questioned by the police in connection with the recent murder of the abbot of Wat PatorSeesiad in Udon Thani.
Pol Maj-Gen Chaiyat Saithin, Udon Thani provincial police chief, said Thursday that police would try to find out whether the chairman of Aek-udom hospital whose name was withheld was involved in the murder of Phra Bandhit Supunthito, the abbot of Wat PatorSeesiad, or not.

The monk who was a former doctor was shot dead by a gunman as he was receiving alms from members of the public in the Muang district on March 1.

Police earlier arrested Mr Vivet Vichaiyo, former mayor of Na Antambon municipality on the suspicion that he was involved in the monk’s murder.

An informed source said that the hospital chairman would give a press conference at the police savings cooperative after meeting with the police to tell his side of the story.

Hospital chief to be questioned in abbot?s murder case - Thai PBS English News