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Fighter jet pilot’s wife apparently commits suicide in Thailand
BANGKOK, Sept 2, 2018 (BSS/XINHUA) – The wife of a Thai fighter jet pilot
was reported to commit suicide by jumping off the high building of a Bangkok
hotel on Saturday, police said.
The 46-year-old woman, identified as Chandrawan Thammawichai, the spouse of
Thai Air Force’s Capt. Chakkrit Thammawichai, was found dead on the ground
after she jumped off the ninth-story parking lot of the hotel on
Ratchadaphisek road in the Thai capital, according to the police.
On the corridor of the hotel’s parking lot from where the woman jumped off
lay a “farewell” letter hand-written by the deceased, the police said.
The police are to investigate a possible motive which may have prompted the
fighter pilot’s spouse to commit suicide.
The pilot is considerably well-known among the rank and file of the Thai
Air Force and used to fly a JAS 39 Gripen fighter jet based in Surat Thani
province in southern Thailand.
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