Patong Icecream Vendor Kills Rival in Dispute Over Territory - Phuket Wan


Rusty or neat blue: the rivals' icecream sales units in Patong today
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Patong Icecream Vendor Kills Rival in Dispute Over Territory

By Sert Tongdee
Friday, November 23, 2012

PHUKET: Two icecream salesmen failed to keep their cool in Patong today, with one vendor killing the other in a dispute over territory.

Nai, 24, who was killed, had been selling around the Phisit Koranee Road area in Patong for two years.

Police are now hunting a rival ice cream vendor, Yae, 32, who stabbed him to death about 11.30am today. Yae had been selling in the district for about three months.

Both men were Burmese, said the investigating officer, Lieutenant Colonel Jongserm Preecha, of Kathu Police Station.

It's believed the dispute escalated over time.

Even though Nai had been selling in the area longer than Yae, Yae became aggressive and killed his rival.

Yae is believed to have fled with his wife after the killing today.

Both men's icecream saamlor - motorcycles with sidecars and containers for icecream - were found near the scene of the killing.