Thai teen, 14, stabs schoolmate to death in a fight
Adolescent violence is not rare in Thailand but fatal cases usually involve rival gangs of older students
A 14-year-old has been arrested on charges alleging that he stabbed a Thai-Australian schoolmate to death in a fight after having an ongoing feud, police in Thailand said on Friday.
The suspect told investigators he and the victim harboured a mutual dislike from school and they agreed via the Line messaging app to meet outside a grocery store near their homes on Tuesday in Sattahip in Chonburi province, said police colonel Tanapol Klinkesorn, director of the Sattahip police station.
The suspect appeared to have lost the fight because the other boy was bigger, but the suspect rushed to his car to grab a cooking knife and stabbed the victim in the back, Tanapol said.
The victim was also 14, but the suspect was an eighth-grader while the victim was a year behind him, police said. They did not release their names because of their age but said the Australian embassy confirmed the victim had dual nationality.
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The boy was found lying at the entrance to the store with the knife in his back and its broken handle on the ground, according to Sawang Rojanatham Rescue Foundation, a charity organisation whose EMS workers rushed to the scene.
