Former Thai Sang Thai Executive Assaulted in Khon Kaen Restaurant
Former Thai Sang Thai Party executive Sompong Wannuphatham was assaulted with a wooden stick and tackled to the ground in a Khon Kaen restaurant on November 9. CCTV and phone footage captured the attack, which was stopped by an elderly bystander. Sompong filed a police report the next day with video evidence and a medical certificate.
Former Thai Sang Thai Party executive and former Khon Kaen municipal council candidate Sompong Wannuphatham, known as "Yoch," reports being physically assaulted in a restaurant in Khon Kaen's Muang district. He plans to file a police complaint with CCTV footage, a video recorded by his girlfriend, and a medical certificate. The incident occurred on November 9 at 3:10 p.m. at a restaurant in Sieng subdistrict, Muang district, Khon Kaen. CCTV footage shows Sompong walking and talking with an elderly man before another man in a black shirt enters holding a wooden stick and attempts to attack Sompong. The attacker then tackles Sompong to the ground and presses his head down. The elderly man tells the attacker to stop, saying "that's enough, I beg you." Sompong's girlfriend also recorded the incident on video. At 11:30 a.m. on November 10, Sompong went to Muang Khon Kaen Police Station to file a report against the assailant and explain the incident.
