Brutal Crime: Suspect Poisons Water Supply, Nine Cattle Dead; Owner Loses Hundreds of Thousands, Pleads for Police Investigation
A Phatthalung woman lost nine cattle to poisoned water in her palm plantation, with investigators finding evidence of deliberate poisoning including a slashed water container and white pills at the scene.
On May 15, 2569, at Pa Bon Police Station in Phatthalung Province, 56-year-old Wannadee Glinkhiao from Moo 10, Pa Bon Subdistrict, Pa Bon District, Phatthalung, filed a complaint with investigators after discovering nine of her grazing cattle dead in a palm plantation. The animals were found scattered along a concrete road within the plantation, causing the owner severe distress.
Wannadee explained that she raises approximately 20 cattle and has been letting them graze freely for several years. On the morning of the incident, her husband released the cattle from their pen as usual before returning home for a meal. When he later returned to check on the animals in the palm plantation area of Moo 8, Nong Thong Subdistrict, he found nine cattle lying dead in a row along the plantation road. Damage estimates have not yet been calculated.
Investigators found a slashed water container and three black buckets containing white pills at the scene, suggesting the suspect deliberately placed poison to kill the cattle in large numbers. Local residents have expressed outrage at the cruelty of the act, noting that cattle represent the primary livelihood and wealth of rural families. Such an action is equivalent to destroying a family's means of survival.
Police from Pa Bon Station visited the scene and collected evidence to accelerate the investigation and bring charges against the perpetrator. In the evening, the owner used a backhoe to dig a grave and bury the dead cattle in the grazing field—a heartbreaking scene as a surviving calf cried out searching for its mother, unaware that she had already been buried.
