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Eight more Phuket bikes torched

PHUKET: Eight motorcycles were incinerated early this morning (April 22) next to the Irawadee Ket Ho condominium in Kathu. This brings to 20 the number of motorcycles burned in a continuing spate of arson attacks.


By Naraporn Tuarob

Monday 22 April 2013 06:47 PM


Local people called police at 3am to say there was a blaze next to building C of the condo.

Pol Capt Wittaya Sinjumroen of Thung Thong Police Station told The Phuket News, “By the time I got there the flames had already been extinguished. Looking at it, I believe one bike was torched and the fire then spread to the other seven.

I believe the fire was started deliberately but we need to investigate further.”

Asked whether this incident was related to previous arson attacks on motorbikes, Capt Wittaya said, “I don’t know yet, but we will find out”.