Man Attacks 61-Year-Old During Morning Jog in Trat

On June 30, at 5:08 p.m., local authorities in Thung Nontri subdistrict, Khao Saming district, Trat province received reports of a serious assault. When officers arrived at the scene on Soi Nak Prasit in Moo 9, neither the victim nor the attacker were present. Security camera footage from a nearby residence captured the entire incident clearly. The incident began when a 61-year-old man, whose name is being withheld, started his first morning exercise walk. A 32-year-old man, known as Witwat or Mop (surname withheld), rode up on a Honda PCX motorcycle, engaged the victim in a brief verbal dispute that escalated into a physical fight. When the victim tried to grab a wooden stick to defend himself, Mop overpowered him and struck him repeatedly in the head with the stick until he collapsed. Despite neighbors' attempts to intervene, Mop continued the assault, beating the victim multiple times with a bamboo pole before fleeing on his motorcycle. Minutes later, Mop returned with a sidecar motorcycle, loaded the unconscious man onto it, and fled toward his durian orchard about 750 meters away.

When officers tracked him to the orchard, they found a pool of blood and two firearms—a pistol and a shotgun—placed together. However, there was no trace of the victim. Authorities suspected Mop had thrown the body into a pond at the rear of the orchard and called in divers to search. Police collected both firearms as evidence and launched a coordinated manhunt across neighboring subdistricts. Early reports indicated the sidecar involved in the attack had crashed into a garbage pile near the Tao Hone water reservoir in Huay Raeng subdistrict, Mueang district, but the vehicle was not found when officers checked the location.