[Bangkok Post] A passenger van driver was found hanged in a police cell on Tuesday, three days after he was detained for "innocently" delivering a parcel bomb to a defense volunteer unit. Somjit Jara-ae had been held at an interrogation center in Yala since last Saturday night. He was found dead with a shower hose around his neck in a sitting position near the door of his cell late on Tuesday night, Dusadee Chusangkit, chief investigator for the Southern Border Provinces Police Operations Center , told a press briefing in Yala province. | Did he also tie his hands behind his back? |
Somjit told interrogators he did not know what was inside the parcel, or who sent it. He just followed his supervisor's order to deliver it.
Dusadee said that Somjit committed suicide due to stress after his son visited him on Tuesday and they had an argument. The family did not dispute the cause of the death, and so no autopsy was performed, Dusadee said.
Yala police commander Itthiphol Achariyapradit said Somjit had provided useful information and more people would be investigated.