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Phuket girl slashed by machete-swinging boyfriend

Phuket girl slashed by machete-swinging boyfriend

PHUKET: A young woman is in serious condition in Thalang Hospital after a frenzied attack by her boyfriend, who chopped her back and neck with a machete, known locally as a “sparta knife”.


By Eakkapop Thongtub

Monday 16 June 2014 10:07 AM


After a grocery store shop owner near Kok Chana Pama (Burmese Victory Hill) in Thalang, at 10pm on Sunday (June 15), police and rescue volunteers arrived to find 23-year-old Ampornpan Parawet seriously injured with knife wounds. She was also badly bruised.

After dressing her wounds, the rescue volunteers took her to Thalang Hospital, while police tried to piece together what had happened.

The shop owner told officers that Ampornpan had come to the shop earlier to buy beer to drink with her boyfriend, whom he named as “Jao”.

Later the same evening, she staggered into the the shop covered in blood and screaming for help.

Police are now looking for “Jao” on a charge of aggravated assault.