Phuket: Deadly Apparent Road Rage Against Foreigners Escalates

Phuket Expat Stabbed to Death: Hunt for Killers

http://phuketwan.com/tourism/phuket-expat-stabbed-death-outside-eleven-12078/

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By Chutima Sidasathian
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Phuketwan Updating Report

AN EXPAT man has been stabbed to death outside a 7-Eleven store near Chalong Circle in southern Phuket and police are hunting his killers tonight.

Phuketwan has been told the man was knifed about 7pm by three youths who sped off on a pink Yamaha Fino motorcycle with no registration plates in the direction of Rawai.

Investigators have examined security camera footage and are working on the theory that the man, proceeding from Chao Fa Road West towards Rawai, cut off the motorcycle, which had right of way as it turned at Chalong Circle towards the road to Chalong pier.

Officers believe the motorcycle caught up with the expat driver and the young men attacked the man with their fists before one of them knifed him twice in the ribs.

Police Lieutenant Anukul Nuket, of Chalong Police Station, named the man as Eugen Wolf-Dieter, aged 66.

Mr Wolf-Dieter died on the way to Phuket International Hospital in Phuket City. His body was later transferred to Vachira Hospital, also in Phuket City, Lieutenant Anukul said.

It is believed the man parked his black four-door Toyota Vigo outside the 7-Eleven, in Wiset Road, the main road heading for Rawai from Chalong Circle, before the stabbing.

Phuketwan placed a telephone call tonight to the Thai wife of Mr Wolf-Dieter. The call was answered by a Thai man who said: ”She is not here. She is sleeping in another house.”

The man said the couple were no longer together.